The Rise of Lay Education in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Europe

The rise of lay education in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Europe was important because through it:

A) cathedral schools became the main centers of European education.
B) the Bible was translated into the medieval forerunners of French, Italian, and German.
C) the West was able to attain the best of Greek and Arabic thought and build on it.
D) people were increasingly able to pursue nonreligious lines of inquiry, and Western culture ultimately became more independent of religion than other cultures.
E) the emerging national governments obtained the needed bureaucrats for government work.