Question

Drag and drop the correct sentences to identify changes in education during the High Middle Ages.

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Changes to Education

Answer 1

Correct sentences describing changes in education in the High Middle Ages:

1. Cathedral and monastic schools expanded and gradually evolved into the first universities.
2. Universities (for example, Bologna, Paris, and Oxford) emerged and granted degrees in law, medicine, and theology.
3. The curriculum formalized around the liberal arts (trivium: grammar, rhetoric, logic; quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy) with advanced study in theology.
4. Scholastic methods — systematic questioning, disputation, and dialectical reasoning — became central to higher learning.
5. Increased copying and translation of texts (including translations of Aristotle from Arabic) expanded available textbooks and learning materials.
6. Growing towns and a merchant class led to wider (though still limited) literacy and more lay access to schooling.
7. Latin remained the language of instruction, even as vernacular literature and teaching began to grow later in the period.

Sentences that would be incorrect for this period:
- Education became universally available to all social classes. (False — access remained limited, especially for peasants.)
- Women had equal access to universities. (False — women’s access was very limited; some convent schools existed.)
- The printing press transformed education. (False — printing appears after the period, in the 15th century.)