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Dame schools were small, privately run schools for children aged two to five. They emerged in Great Britain and its colonies during the early modern period. These schools were taught by a “school dame
Thomas George Webster, A Dame's School, in England
A late 19th-century dame school class with five students in East Anglia, England.
The history of education in Scotland in its modern sense of organised and institutional learning, began in the Middle Ages, when Church choir schools and grammar schools began educating boys. By the e
Carving of a 17th-century classroom with a dominie and his ten scholars from George Heriot's School, Edinburgh
Tower of St Salvator's College, St Andrews, one of the three universities founded in the fifteenth century
A woodcut showing John Mair, one of the most successful products of the Scottish educational system in the late fifteenth century
Andrew Melville, credited with major reforms in Scottish Universities in the sixteenth century