The links below focus on images of schoolmasters and other such teachers at work in medieval classrooms, focusing on children's teachers (rather than university teachers, or teachers of clergy).

See also A history of education during the Middle Ages and the transition to modern times.

• Grammar and her students, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury, (BNF Latin 7900 A, fol. 127), 10th century
• A monk talks to a group of pupils (fol. 176v); Geometry and her students, (fol. 293), Interpretation of Aristotle's Categories (British Library Burney 275), c. 1300
• Rabban Gamaliel and his students, Hispano-Moresque Haggadah (British Library Or. 2737, fol. 20v), c. 1300
• Aristotle teaches Alexander, Romance of Alexander (BNF Fr. 790, fol. 1), first quarter of the 14th century
• An ape schoolmaster beats his student with a switch (fol. 6r) and a fox dressed as a teacher instructs a six-headed monster (fol. 7r), Les voeux du paon (Morgan Library MS G. 24), c. 1350
• A scholar lectures to students, Omne Bonum (British Library Royal E. VII, fol. 443), c. 1360-1375
• Education, Remède de Fortune (BNF Fr. 1584, fol. 49v), c. 1372-1377
• A Jewish teacher and pupil, the Coburg Pentateuch (British Library Add. 19776, fol. 72v), 1395
• Lessons, a bible (Universitätsbibliothek Graz cod. 143, fol. 157r), c. 1395-1405
• Aristotle instructing Alexander, La vraye histoire du bon roy Alixandre (British Library Royal 20 B. XX, fol. 10v), early 15th century
• The education of girls, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 290, fol. 197v), first quarter of the 15th century
• A female teacher instructs a group of young women in reading, a prayerbook (British Library Harley 3828, fol. 27v), c. 1445
• A school, Hours of Louis of Savoy (BNF Latin 9473, fol. 172), c. 1450
• A geometry lesson, On the liberal arts (BNF Latin 8500, fol. 38), 15th century
• Starting school, The book of vices and virtues (BNF Fr. 20320, fol. 177v), 15th century
• The instruction of the young, Aristotle's Politics, Ethics, and Economics (BNF Fr. 22500, fol. 248), 15th century
• The School of Tagaste (detail) by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1464-1465
• Grammar, ÖNB 2975, fol. 1r, 1477
• A doctor teaching pupils, Turba philosophorum (St. John's College G. 14, fol. 96v), 1479
• A geometry lesson, De arithmetica opusculum (BNF Impr. Rés. V 2041, fol. IV), 1491
• Schoolmaster by Albrecht Dürer, 1510
• From the basics to university, Margarita Philosophica nova (BNF Impr. Rés. R. 813), 1515
• Signboard for the schoolmaster Myconius by Ambrosius Holbein, 1516
• The Ass at School by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1556; details
• The Village School by Jan Steen, c. 1670