The English grammar schools to 1660 : their curriculum and practice. / Includes bibliographical references and index.

  • Watson, Foster, 1860-1929.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The English grammar schools to 1660 : their curriculum and practice. / Includes bibliographical references and index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    17th centuries, shows that the EngHsh Grammar Schools gained much of their vitality and inspiration from the national life, in its most intense manifestation in Puritanism. The unity and continuity of Grammar School practice in the i6th and 17th centuries are therefore to be sought in the twofold aims of classicism and religious training. In the later part of the period 1559-1660, the frequent, if not general triumph of Calvinistic Puritanism, caused classicism to be regarded, not as an end in itself, but as subservient and helpful to religion, which was essentially the first motive in the school as in the nation. The mediaeval schools and the Grammar Schools up to 1660 were similarly permeated with the religious aims, but the later schools had incorporated the subject-matter of the Revival of Learning, turning it largely into the service, or at least into the adornment, of the changed national religious convictions.