I had a strong, really good upbringing,not puritanical.- Tom Selleck
Good parents are those who make a clever mix of love and good upbringing. They love the children and keep a realistic eye on the behavior of the child. They cleverly try to correct the faults of the child. They make the child realize that he is not free to do wrong acts. He is made aware of the fact that if the parents love him for the good things he does; he may be punished for anything wrong committed by him.
I had a strong, really good upbringing,not puritanical.- Tom Selleck

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Nonetheless, even if we discount Blanquerna's study of medicine andtheology as a veryimprobable means for laypeople to attain cultural or social distinction, Llull's representation ofschooling may not satisfy our definitions of an "educational program." His account of"elementary and secondary education" does not give that process a preeminent role in forming theyoung hero's persona. Instead, it appears as a dramatization of the ascetic ideal of care for bodyand soul, as a misrecognition of distinctions in class and gender, or as an appropriation of clericalcultural capital. These narrative, ideological, and practical contingencies in Llull's representationof schooling suggest an important caution about isolating the education of children from otherprocesses of social reproduction. Any inquiry that focuses on schools or schoolmasters alone willcertainly be too narrow. Nicholas Orme notes, with implicit consternation, the apparently slightstatus of schools as "cultural institutions" in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England. Accordingto his calculations, only 300 to 600 schoolmasters served the entire population of the countryaround 1400. However, this limitednumber should not negate their importance so much as it reminds us of the range of interests, agents, and distinctions that contributed to social reproduction in their era. Thisdiversity is apparent in an example offered by Barbara Hanawalt in her address to the 1995meeting of the Illinois Medieval Association: a young man, asked to produce witnesses who canverify his identity, calls upon his relatives, godparents, nurse, household servants, parish priest,and schoolmaster. These subjects, along with the manifold social practices and relations realizedthrough them, all contribute to the "good upbringing" that Ramon Llull represents in his . Despite its idiosyncrasy or idealization, the scope of his representation shouldultimately challenge us to recognize how our own broad concepts of "education" are equallyarbitrary, heterogeneous, and constructed. Indeed, we might even wonder to what social,political, or economic ends we misrecognize and appropriate the schooling of late medievalchildren as a historical predecessor for our own practices.
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Nonetheless, even if we discount Blanquerna's study of medicine andtheology as a veryimprobable means for laypeople to attain cultural or social distinction, Llull's representation ofschooling may not satisfy our definitions of an "educational program." His account of"elementary and secondary education" does not give that process a preeminent role in forming theyoung hero's persona. Instead, it appears as a dramatization of the ascetic ideal of care for bodyand soul, as a misrecognition of distinctions in class and gender, or as an appropriation of clericalcultural capital. These narrative, ideological, and practical contingencies in Llull's representationof schooling suggest an important caution about isolating the education of children from otherprocesses of social reproduction. Any inquiry that focuses on schools or schoolmasters alone willcertainly be too narrow. Nicholas Orme notes, with implicit consternation, the apparently slightstatus of schools as "cultural institutions" in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England. Accordingto his calculations, only 300 to 600 schoolmasters served the entire population of the countryaround 1400. However, this limitednumber should not negate their importance so much as it reminds us of the range of interests, agents, and distinctions that contributed to social reproduction in their era. Thisdiversity is apparent in an example offered by Barbara Hanawalt in her address to the 1995meeting of the Illinois Medieval Association: a young man, asked to produce witnesses who canverify his identity, calls upon his relatives, godparents, nurse, household servants, parish priest,and schoolmaster. These subjects, along with the manifold social practices and relations realizedthrough them, all contribute to the "good upbringing" that Ramon Llull represents in his . Despite its idiosyncrasy or idealization, the scope of his representation shouldultimately challenge us to recognize how our own broad concepts of "education" are equallyarbitrary, heterogeneous, and constructed. Indeed, we might even wonder to what social,political, or economic ends we misrecognize and appropriate the schooling of late medievalchildren as a historical predecessor for our own practices.
