Chapter I

RISE OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS.--A.D. 60 TO 543.
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St. Mark at Alexandria. The canonical life of the clergy gives
rise to the foundation of the Episcopal schools. The school of
the Patriarchium at Rome. Decrees of early Councils regarding the
education of the clergy. Catechetical schools. The public schools
of the Empire, and their distinctive character. The Christian
method of education, as explained by St. Basil and St. Augustine.
The Monks of the desert, and the first germ of monastic schools.
The rules of St. Pachomius, St. Cæsarius, and St. Leander of
Seville. Domestic education among the early Christians. The
destruction of the Imperial schools on the fall of the Empire.
General decay of letters. Some degree of learning survives in the
ecclesiastical schools. The schools of Gaul in the fifth century.
Boëthius and Cassiodorus. The academy of Toulouse. The seminaries
of Tours and Lerins. 1