Civilizing and cultivating...

Schools like those found at Mantua, Ferrara, Vicenza, and Cremona taught the skills that later made the civilized man and woman possible. They sowed the seeds and, more importantly, watered the plants and kept the garden weeded. Although many of the commoners attending Casa Giocosa went on to Padua or Bologna to study Law or Medicine, Vittorino did not set out to prepare them for their professions. He set out to civilize and cultivate them. Anything less or other would not have squared with Humanist tenets.
~T. L. Simmons, Climbing Parnassus, p.100