Chapter 5 page 23 back chapter 1 back chapter 2 back chapter 3 back chapter 4	In the past there were no strict rules about the time children should begin their formal education. Generally, when they reached the age of eight, parents would take them to a monastery and left them under instruction of the monks. However, this is applicable to boys only. Girls, on the contrary, were trained at home in cookery and embroidery. In aristocratic family, parents would pay a tutor from Krom ArLuck to teach the children. If they lived in the capital city, their little girl would be sent to the court for training. This was regarded as a first-class degree.
	........For common folks, monasteries were the center of their faith and respect. Monks were highly reverred; knowledge was accumulated and safely kept in the cloisters. ........To entrust their little son to the monk, parents had to give permissions to him. That is, the monk had the right to scold or beat the child, and the latter had to obey and serve him as though he were his parents. Not only would the monk instruct the child in reading and writing, but he would also instill morality and the proper code of conducts so that the child would be able to discriminate the right from wrong. Those who had been educated in monastery were trusted and accepted in the society. Briefly speaking, education in monasteries was comparable to university graduation of modern time.	Chapter 5 page 23 back chapter 1 back chapter 2 back chapter 3 back chapter 4
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