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The English Reformation was a tumultuous period in English history, characterized by religious and political upheaval. This book, written by Arthur Francis Leach, provides an insightful and detailed account of the role that education played in this period of change and uncertainty. It covers everything from the dissolution of the monasteries to the establishment of new schools and colleges. Anyone interested in the history of education or the Reformation will find this book to be an engaging and informative read. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Excerpt from English Schools: At the Reformation, Formation, 1546-8 Edward VI.: Spoiler of Schools. Never was a great reputation more easily gained and less deserved than that of King Edward VI. as a founder of schools. If the ordinary educated person were asked to whom our system of secondary education was mainly due, and who was the founder of most of the Grammar Schools on which it chiefly rests, he would answer, without hesitation, Edward VI. The magnificent foundations of Christs Hospital and Birmingham Grammar School, and the numerous Edward VI. Grammar Schools which stud the country, would rise up before his mind, and he would give the credit of them to their reputed founder. Even to those people who credit William of Wykeham with the foundation of our public school system in founding Winchester, and credit Henry VIII. with the cathedral schools, such as the Kings School, Canterbury, Edward VI. still stands out as par excellence the founder of schools and patron saint of industrious schoolboys. So widespread is this reputation that even such an authority as Mr. J.R. Green, in his famous Short History of the English People burns incense before the shrines of Edward VI. and of his father and sister, as the founders of English education. Summing up the state of learning in the reign of Edward VI., he says: All teaching ceased at the Universities; the students, indeed, had fallen off in number, the libraries were in part scattered or burnt, the intellectual impulse of the New Learning had died away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Leach struggled to rid his countrymen of the persistent myth that the monks had been the schoolmasters of the pre-Reformation period in England. To accomplish his goal he embarked on a program of research and publication, based on a mass of hitherto unexplored documents, to establish the great antiquity of many of the nation's Latin schools and to show that they derived from clerical, but secular, colleges of Anglo-Saxon times. Showing this would, he hoped, eliminate the persistant belief that monks had been the school-masters of pre-Reformation England. Miner argues that previous readings of Leach, which suggest that his main concern is to take issue with the Reformation and argue that this great watershed in history was - at least with regard to education - a retrograde step rather than a great movement forward, have not taken into account the full range of his publications. The aim of the present study is thus to place both Leach's achievements and his more controversial theses in historical context. A separate chapter devoted to unpublished material from the Charity Commission reveals Leach's method of work and provides an analytic survey of opinions on his work by reviewers and historians. The author supplements Leach's lack of material on the school curriculum through descriptive analysis of grammatical manuscripts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, showing the presence of an educational Christendom of which Leach was clearly unaware.