Well if the Church didn’t allow people to learn latin how were the parents supposed to learn it so they could then teach their child?
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‘Well if the Church didn’t allow people to learn latin how were the parents supposed to learn it so they could then teach their child?’
The higher social levels in the Roman Empire were literate in Latin long before the Church had much influence on society. People wrote each other letters, generally about business matters. Most of the population of the former Empire were descendants of Roman citizens from that day to this. Each generation learned from the previous one for hundreds of years. In addition there were occasional development and provision of Grammar (Latin) schools by some more progressive secular leaders, notably Charlemagne in France and Germany and Alfred the Great in Anglo Saxon Britain, which lead to an improvement in the general level of English proficiency.