Educational goals of 1529
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In the Reformation Ordinance of April 1, 1529, the Grand Council took the educational system out of the hands of the church and formulated the educational goals:
Since for the proclamation of the Divine Word and the raising of educated people with a peacable, christian and bourgeois nature we are in need of scholars, with God's help we shall provide the schools as well as the university with good, well-trained schoolmasters and professors who not onla teach in Latin but also the Greek and Hebrew languages, so that the Young as well as the elderly will be thereby artfully educated and raised to christian virtues and can become the princes of our Community.
Although Mathematics is not mentioned in any of the curricula of that time, in the Image we see Thomas Platter explaining to a student the Pythagorean theorem.(Blackboard in the background).