Edward Vl's Schools.
We are not sorry to see, though extremely late in the day, someone' who has successfully knocked a little of the " side " of King Edward VI in establishing the grammar schools called after hihi. A writer, in the. Contemporary asserts that so fai* from Henry VIII or Edward VI being benevolent founders of schools, they were spoilers, and instead of being munificent creators of a system iof endowed secondary education, tlWy were its destroyers. He asserts that their usual custom was to confiscate a monastery worth say a revenue. of £300 a year and then to endow, a; school with £5 to £10 a year, pocket--ing fche difference land their succe&or Elizabeth, was so successful in these. financial arrangements that they left no opportunities for succeeding sovereigns, and that explains why there are only Edward Vl's grammar schools in England. It seems , a reasonable explanation.
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Manawatu Herald, 19 November 1892, Page 2
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148Edward Vl's Schools. Manawatu Herald, 19 November 1892, Page 2
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