Education in The Middle Ages

During the middle ages the church tought the boys there education. A French ruler named Charlemagne was one of the main reasons why boys got an education. He had realized that with out education his empire would never survive. During the middle ages only the boys were able to receive an education unless you were the daughter of a rich family. All the knights of the middle ages knew how to read and write and if you didnt people didnt think as highly of you. The boys were tought grammar, rhetoric, logic, latin, astronomy, philosophy and mathematics. During this time that is what seemed most important for the young boys to learn. once the boys hit the ages of 14 and 15 they would go to a university to continue learning more. The only time education was stopped was during an invasion or a war. Some of the things that students due today are because of what they kids did at the universities then. The reason that college graduates wear those caps and gowns on there graduation day is because the students in the middle ages also wore certain gowns and caps on there graduations.