Humanism played an important role in education during the time of the Renaissance. Its goal was to improve the lives of the country's citizens and help their communities. During the Renaissance, the humanists opened schools to teach their viewpoints. They also wrote many books about their views. Humanism was a cultural and intellectual movement that was predominant in the fourteenth to sixteenth century Europe. It promoted vernacular texts as opposed to the church's restriction on any text other than religious texts.
