For girls who had the chance to go to school what they learnt were still about encouraging chastity and developing skills of housewifery For boys they started to go to grammar schools at the age of six or seven In the lower forms boys studied Latin grammar and vocabulary while in the upper forms they concentrated on the poetry and prose of different writers After attending grammar school most boys became apprentice and were trained by a master for seven years This would then make the boys journeymen and they could work for wages Boys of poorer families rarely had the chance to attend university but they could still do so through a scholarship or financing from a wealthy patron