The humanists, scholars like Erasmus (C.1466 -1536), believed in the powers of the human intellect and in the value of the study of works of great men… ‘It was the substitution of humanism for divinity , of this word for the net , as the object
Of living , and therefore of education, that differentiated the humanists form their predecessors…The humanists’ progress consisted in the adoption of the dogma The noblest study of mankind is man’