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This article discusses reforms in the Dutch Latin schools in the first part of the 17th century, and the role played by the canonization of disciplines in this period. The underlying reasons and historical and political contexts in which the reforms took place, and which appear to have lasting impact to the present day, are also disussed. It will be shown how the need for standardization of the very different local practices, in order to achieve a higher level of learning, led to a prescribed set of authors and disciplines for local use in grammar schools. The ultimate goal of the reforms was the education of protestant pastors, who, in competition with jesuit catholic education, were trained in classical and biblical learning. The so-called Schoolordre of 1625, issued by the province of Holland, was the document written in order to raise pre-academic education to a higher level.
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