There are many stages in the development of the school system in Dubrovnik in the Middle Ages. We know very little about the schools of Dubrovnik before 1333. The schools for the education of altar boys and other clerical youth were in monasteries. To a limited extent also private teachers helped literate the young. Then on March 6th 1333 Mali svet (small council) first discussed of a community teacher in Dubrovnik. They hired Nikolai from Verona as a magister gramaticus. He was paid 10 perpers per year, and there was also a special tuition paid by the children. The coming of this teacher to Dubrovnik is seen as the beginning of the first public town school. In 1385 master Karlo Jacobi di Scanello from Bologna was named as a teacher. He was also the first state official - salariat. The school system became the state’s and teachers government officials. They got an increase in pay, but terminated the tuition. In 1412, there was another change in the school system of Dubrovnik. Classes were divided into two stages. At the lower stage, a teacher taught reading and writing, at the higher stage grammar, rhetoric and philosophy. The central person and one of the reformers of the school system in Dubrovnik was the Italian humanist Filip de Diversis de Quartigiani from Lucca. By then the people of Dubrovnik got their first Act on Schools (1435) and the school obtained new spacious classrooms. Lessons for primary schools stayed the same, whereas secondary school education divided into two branches: commercial and humanistic. According to the idea of Filip de Diversisa, this was the first humanistic school in Dubrovnik. From very early on in Dubrovnik, there must have been a special Slavic school, where the people of Dubrovnik learnt Cyrillic alphabet.