Did Anglo-Saxons children go school

Answer 1

No, everything they needed to learn would be acquired 'on the job'. Most folk were farmers and learned their life skills from growing up in their local communities. Likewise the ruling class of warriors would have been taught the fine arts of fighting and administration by the example and experience of their elders. Specialised occupations such as metalworking, woodworking, sailing etc would most probably have been based around apprenticeships and perhaps primitive guild systems. As Christianisation took hold monks and members of the clergy from all walks of life but often the nobility would be given a religious education which involved reading, writing and perhaps limited access to surviving Classical disciplines such as mathematics and history. As Anglo-Saxon society became more centralised and its administration more advanced some nobles may have been educated in some form during childhood as seen in the case of King Alfred, but for the most part things remained the way they had been until the Late Medieval period when education became more widely available to the secular aristocratic class.

Answer 2

yes they did