What kind of education did people have in medieval Wales?

Question

For both nobility and peasants...was there formal education, home schooling, etc? What did they learn?

Answer 1

as a rule, very few people were educated to any great extent in Wales or anywhere else in what is now the U.K during this period. the vast majority of education took place within the construct of the monastery, and sometimes nobles would send their children to such (monastic) schools with no intention of them ever becoming priests. the nature of the education received in these schools was classically rooted, but was modified to make knowledge received more germaine to church work and Biblical study, thus many elements of a strict classical education were left out. this was especially the case in the several centuries following the withdrawal of Roman legions from the Britain, when education was limited solely to these monastic schools and their most noted scholars (i.e. Anselm and Bede)