Lecture 10: Education in the Middle Ages was largely under the control of the Church.
As Humanism matured, it was gradually institutionalized into a system of secular education that spread across the entire Italian peninsula.
Teaching correct Golden Age Latin (and, later, Greek) became central to the Humanist program.
Fluency in these ancient languages meant that students would be able to read ancient texts with facility, understand their references, and free themselves of dependence on corrupt medieval editions of the classics that were marred with error and interpolation.