The tradition of learning

There has always been some form of education but there have not been always been schools. Four hundredyears ago few people in England went to school or learnt or read . But this lack of literacy doesn't mean the people were uneducated. In some ways they were better educated than their descendants today. The peasant in the village learnt the art and skills of farming together with much traditional wisdom. about earth , sky and living things. For the girl the home withits kitchen and herb garden offered a better domestic education than it does in these days of canned food, readymade clothes. The whole people shared its own peculiar culture and enjoyed a rich heritage of customs , tales games and music. The young could learn all they need by simply growing in that community. But later in the development of the society schools as we know them became necewssary. In various ways he schools ar separated from the rest of the life of the community and therefore there is an ever present danger that education may become artificial and remote from the everyuday life.