During the Modern Age, the teaching of the middle arts did not follow an organised plan; rather, it was a conglomerate of teaching between the learning of the first letters and the university. This intermediate level included humanities colleges (the forerunners of today’s secondary schools), schools founded by economic societies, teaching in ecclesiastical or noble seminaries, and grammar studies, which could be public or private, conventual or secular. Each centre had autonomy in the design of its curriculum. Of all the medium studies, the most widespread were those of grammar, the aim of which was to learn the classical Latin language. In the province of Extremadura, at the end of the 18th century, there were 66 centres of this type. The centres were established with varying intensity in the districts of Extremadura: Llerena had 17, followed by the districts of Trujillo (14), Alcántara (13), and Badajoz (11). The rest, as a whole, had 5 schools. The author notes that Mérida had approximately 6 centres, a figure which may change in the light of further research. How were the grammar schools financed? Most of them were not endowed from private sources: donations, pious works, testamentary mandates, etc. In the district of Plasencia, which had a smaller proportion of schools, all of them were financed from private sources; the same tendency was found in Trujillo and Badajoz, where endowed schools outnumbered those which were financed only by student fees. In contrast, Alcántara, Llerena, Coria, Cáceres and La Serena had more schools without endowment.

Collection: Graphics

Project: 11. Science and culture as representation in Europe.

Chronology: XVIII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/Studia_Historica/article/view/shhmo2018402345382/19918

Resource type: Graph

Format: Bar chart

Source: Solano Macías, C. y Vivas Moreno, A. (2018). "La enseñanza de gramática en España a finales del siglo XVIII: el caso de la provincia de Extremadura", en Studia Historica, vol. 40, nº 2, p. 363.

Language: Spanish

Date: 2018

Owner: Pablo Ballesta Fernández (Modernalia)

Copyright: ©Studia Historica ©Carmen Solano Macías ©Agustín Vivas Moreno

Abstract: Resource that compares grammar schools that were privately funded with those that were only financed by pupil fees. Schools confined to the province of Extremadura at the end of the 18th century

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