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Excerpt from The Danish People's High School: Including a General Account of the Educational System of Denmark The education Of girls seems to have been less specialized. At an early age they engaged in the industries Of the home - sewing, em broidery, spinning, and weaving. They participated in various amusements and mingled freely with the people at festivals and pub lic meetings. Their intellectual training was not entirely neglected, however, for women busied themselves also with poetry. But chiefly by work, play, and free activity were trained the mothers of a sturdy race. The Middle A yes - With the introduction Of Christianity schools were immediately established. The first Christian school is re ported to have been erected in the beginning Of the ninth century by the Apostle of the North, St. Ansgar, for 12 young children whom he, together with his assistants, instructed in Christian learn ing. 1 Throughout Europe during this period there were three chief types Of schools - monastic, cathedral, and burgher schools. Monastic schools were kept by the monks and consisted of two divi sions, an interior school for novices who were to become monks and an exterior department for the boys Of the community who desired an education chiefly for secular purposes. The studies pursued were religion, reading, writing, singing, and the subjects Of the trivium and quadrivium. For the novices there was, in addition, instruction in the rules of the order and some Of the principles Of canonical law. Cathedral schools were established in connection with the cathedral chapters and were training schools chiefly for the priest hood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.