Part 1 one; Chapter 1 The history of secondary education in France; Chapter 2 The early Church and education (I); Chapter 3 The early Church and education (II); Chapter 4 The Carolingian Renaissance (I); Chapter 5 The Carolingian Renaissance (II); Chapter 6 The origins of the universities; Chapter 7 The birth of the University; Chapter 8 The meaning of the word universitas; Chapter 9 The arts faculty; Chapter 10 The colleges (concluded); Chapter 11 Teaching at the arts faculty; Chapter 12 The teaching of dialectic in the universities; Chapter 13 Dialectic and debate; Chapter 14; Conclusions regarding the University; Part 2 two; Chapter 15 The Renaissance (I); Chapter 16 The Renaissance (II); Chapter 17 Educational theory in the sixteenth century; Chapter 18 The educational thought of the Renaissance; Chapter 19 The Jesuits (I); Chapter 20 The Jesuits (II); Chapter 21 The Jesuits’ system and that of the University; Chapter 22; Conclusion on classical education; Chapter 23 The educational theory of the Realists; Chapter 24 The Revolution; Chapter 25 Variations in the curriculum in the nineteenth century; Chapter 26; Conclusion (I); Chapter 27; Conclusion (II);