Events Tagged: "teaching"

Death of Confucius - leaves behind ethical system based on ren (humaneness) and li (ritual propriety)

Ezra returns to Jerusalem - brings 1,500 exiles, commissioned by Artaxerxes to teach Law

Alcuin becomes deacon and teacher at York - never becomes priest, builds York library into best in Europe

Alcuin's students spread learning - Rabanus Maurus becomes 'Teacher of Germany', legacy continues

Aquinas begins teaching at University of Paris, establishes principle: 'Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it'

St. Angela Merici founds Ursulines - first teaching order of women - 'Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family'