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1.Rabelais (1494)
Rabelais deserves a honored place among the reformers in education of the renaissance for his educational recommendation during his time. He was born in 1494 at Touraine . He joined a monastery and later he became too independent for the order to sustain him. He the broke away he devoted himself to medicine.
Rabalais maintains in ‘Gargantua’ that the major objective of education is, or must be ‘Do what thou wilt’.
With this view in mind he wanted to establish a school which could become ideal school run on co- educational basis that there were to be no cloche in school and no compulsion whatsoever. And the students were not to be recruited into the school on the basis of personable men and women only. The basic criteria for admission would be intelligence.
Rabelais made it clear that there were to be no ascetics in the school and no rule of poverty, chastity and of obedience. He wanted the students in the school to exercise their freedom wisely. Then they were to learn foreign languages and various sciences. He felt that greatest evil in education was coercion. He had o place for corporal punishment of scholastic rules nor the worship of the past. \
Rabelais wanted to establish education SYSTEM BASED ON THE GLOR OF THE PRESNT

2.Juan Louis Vives (1492-1540)

Juan was more religious that Rabelais a Spanish thinkers who remained faithful to Catholicism. He exercised a profound influence on commends by his advocacy of the use of vernacular in learning and dare the education of women
In his view the progress of education depends on the methodology used that learning should start with simple and concrete and then move on to the more abstract and complex matters.

3. Peter Ramus (1515-1572)

He felt that the influence of Aristotle needed to be limited in its application in education. He favoured logic based on induction and considered literature as basis of instruction. He was a professor at the university of Parish. He was killed at the time when St. Bartholomew massacred because they were protestants.
Ramus just like Vives, believed in the importance of methodology as the starting purity of
knowledge .That, knowledge must be concrete and applicable in the daily lives of man.

4.Thomas Eliot (1490-1546)

Thomas popularized the new educational ideals in England He outlined the rules of the instruction of the future Aristocrat that, the future aristocrat would be taught the humanity as well as the sciences. At the same time, the praise of the Aristocrat should be developed so that he may act like a real gentleman on all occasions.

5.Sir. Philip Sydney

The renaissance ideal of education was eloquently represented by sir Philip who combined poetry with mainlines and annexed bravery. In his many- sided genius, Sydney represented aspiration to excellence. This was a spirit which was greatly admired during the renaissance.

Titany answered the question on August 30, 2021 at 08:23

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