From Medieval times until, like, now!
Did you know: the BA Fine Art has only been around since 1972. What happened before that? The apprentice in the Master's workshop, the guilds, the Academies, the technical colleges and Bauhaus: how did we get here? Where did art degrees come from and how did artists learn to be artists throughout the entirety of art history?
Read the full text here: The Entire History of Art Schools
And if you're more interested in what's going on outside mainstream, in alternative art schools, my text before this was about that! read it here: A Portrait of a Different Kind of Art School