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A History of Secondary Education in Scotland; An Account of Scottish Secondary Education From Early Times to the Education Act of 1908
A History of Secondary Education in Scotland An Account of Scottish Secondary Education From Early Times to the Education Act of 1908 Author:John Strong General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1909 Original Publisher: The Clarendon Press Subjects: Education, Secondary Education Education / General Education / History Education / Secondary History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there ma... more »y be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III CATHOLIC SUPREMACY In the preceding section we have considered the ecclesiastical and political factors which tended to bring the Celtic Church into close relationship with that of Rome ; for upon this the future development of education in Scotland depended. Definite information, however, regarding education and the schools in Scotland in that early Christian period is very meagre. But with the Romanization of the Church we meet at once with reliable documentary evidence in the form of Church records and chronicles -- the Register, the Obit-Book, the Cartulary -- and from the beginning of the twelfth century continuous and definite accounts are available. Then it is that the earliest documentary notices of the existence of schools appear. Such references are casual, and appear in various connexions ; but, as might be expected, invariably associated with. the Church. One of the earliest occurs in connexion with the gift of Admore to the Culdees1 of the island of Lochleven,2 where one of the witnesses is Berbeadh, Rector scolarum de Abyrnethyn? At that time (c. noo) Abernethy was an ecclesiastical centre, and famous for its learning. A little later (c. 1120), withreference to the welcome extended to Eadmer on his appointment to the See of St. Andrews, the scholars (scholastics) of the schools of the Church of St. Andrews are mentioned as being among those who were present.1 Again, David I, in transferring the Abbey which he ha...« less