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First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
Chapter 1 The Development of Grammar Schools; Chapter 2 The Grammar Schools and the Renascence; Chapter 3 Grammar School Founders. The Great Warrior Prelates; Chapter 4 Grammar School Founders; Chapter 5 The Marian ‘Exiles’ and The Grammar Schools; Chapter 6 Church Control of the Grammar Schools; Chapter 7 The Church and the Grammar Schools; Chapter 8 The Grammar School Curriculum; Chapter 9 The Old Grammar School Internal Life; Chapter 10 The Decadence of Grammar Schools and The Rise of the ‘Great Public Schools.’;
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Foster Watson
Summary
First published in 1968. At the time when the English Grammar Schools were most flourishing, namely the 17th century, they subserved a practical national aim. Puritan England, by no means concerned with the teaching of the Classics per se, looked to the Grammar Schools for that subsidiary help which the study of Latin, Greek and Hebrew afforded to the intensive study of the Scriptures and pietas literata. The question this study looks at is related to the loss of these classic subjects in Secondary schools and therefore to measure in the long-run, the value of our new ‘Secondary’ Schools relatively to the old Grammar Schools—rather than the comprehensiveness of the list of subjects included in the new curricula.
