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The education of children in learning declared by the dignitie, vtilitie, and method thereof. Meete to be knowne, and practised aswell of parents as schoolmaisters.
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Kempe, William.
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1588
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STC 14926; ESTC S109252
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sentence in golden letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If thou loue learning thou shalt attaine to much learning which counsell his Scholler Demosthenes embraced so earnestly that he shaued the one side of his head to impose vpon himselfe a necessitie of staying within dores and so spent more Oyle in studying by candle light then wine in drinking by which diligence it came to passe that the cunning of his mind did surmount the mightie armour of King Phillip of Macedonia wherefore the Athenians gaue him this Epigramme agreeing with the word of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Robora simenti Demosthenis aequa fuissent Non Macedûm Graias Mars populâsset opes If strength equall to will and wit Dâ—mosthenes had had The Macedonian Mars with spoiles of Greeks had not bin clad After these and a great many other renowined Orators not farre differing in time was Menander the Poet whome the Kings of Egypt held in so high estimation that they sent vnto him Ambassadours with many giftes inuiting him to come vnto them and whom S. Paule reuerenced so farre that he hath registred in the holy Bible that verse of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Many other famous Doctors were there some Philosophers as Speâ—sippus Theophrastus Theodorus Demetrius Zeno Cleanthes and Eratosthenes Zeno for his passing learning was adoÌ„rned by the Athenians with a Crowne of gold Agayn some Poets as Metasthenes Erasistratus and Aratus whose sentence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is sanctified also by Saint Paule which diligence of the Apostle in reading these authors wee haue noted now three times In those daies being about three hundred yeres before the birth of Christ reigned Pâ—olomie Philadelphus King of Egypt who with great cost procured a Librarie in Alexandria to bee furnished with all stots of bookes gathered out of all Countries in the which he had as wee haue shewed afore the holy Bible that this schoole of humanitie might bee amended by the former schoole of Diuinitie Besides that this King mainteyned a great many learned men very liberally and tooke great pleasure and delight in their learning Now as this schoole of humanitie was well frequented in Egypt and Greece so in the meane time was it not neglected in Chaldea For in that Countrie long agoe liued Berosus a skilfull Astronomer and a diligent Historiographer of whose workes some part is yet to be seene Yea in Chaldea Daniel and his thrée fellowes were by the Kings stipend and prouision mainteyned at schoole to learne both the language and Philosophie of the Chaldeans And to be breefe these learned men which trauayled into Egypt for the bettering of their learning did for the same cause trauayle into Chaldea also because there was another great welspring of learning But as the schoole of humanitie was brought out of Egypt into Greece so at length some braunches thereof were transported ouer into Italie and there husbanded and trimmed with all diligence and industrie For to ouerpasse Pythagoras who hauing left Greeoe taughe in Italie a schoole of sixe hundred schollers and by whose precepts Numa the second King of the Romanes being instructed set the common wealth in good order there florished first Liuius Andronicus then Ennius and Plautus old Latin Poets neere about two hundred and sixtie yeeres before the comming of Christ Plautus being a seruant was so conetous of learning that he attended vpon his maisters businesse by day and wrote his cloquent Comedies by night Next were Neuius Statius Pacuuius Accius and diuers others among whom was Terence by whose Comedies the learned men then and our Schooles now haue great helpe for puritie and elegancie of the Latine tongue Then there began a schoole of Rhetorike in Rome which was first taught by Plotius Gallus At length there were aboue twentie Schooles at once so that learning abounded plentifully and that chiefly in the Nobilitie Of the which Maister Varro a noble Prince of his Countrie wrate most exquisitly of all parts of Philosophie of the mysteries of religion of the common wealth of the lawes and discipline both for warres and peace of the arte of Grammar and certeyne histories Iulius Caesar the first and greatest Emperour that euer liued with a most pure stile set foorth the histories of his times and certeyne bookes of Grammar and such like doctrine Pompey a grand seniour and actiue Captaine after he had subdued many Kingdomes and Countries both in the East and in the West when he came to the house of Posidonius a schoolemaister caused the maiesticall Mace borne before him to bee layd downe at the doore and so humbled that authoritie to the learning of this schoolemaister to the which authoritie almost all the world East and West had submitted it selfe What great Magistrates in the common wealth were Cato Marcus Antonius and Brutus Yet from them flowed the examples and rules of eloquence But of all other for â—arietie in learning and paynfulnesse to set it foorth in writing Marcus Cicero a worthie Prince also hatÌ„h deserued most prayse Whose bookes as also the histories of Iulius Caesar Terences Comedies together with the bookes of the three Poets Virgil Ouid and Horace and also of Quintilian the Rhetorician and the only Latin schoolemaisters to all good students euen at this day Of Virgil it is reported that when he did reade some part of his booke in the assemblie the people did no lesse reuerence vnto him then if it had been to the Emperour himselfe And that for the making of sixe and twentie verses he was rewarded by Octauia the Emperours sister with no lesse than 1137. pound to wit aboue thrée and fortie pounds for euery verse Both he and Horace for their learning and passing wit were the only darlings to Augustus the Emperour and to Mecenas a noble man two mightie supporters of learned men but especially the latter insomuch that all mainteyners of learning are called by his name Mecenates Ouids learning like Orpheus musicke perswaded euen the Getes a wilde and barbarous people to vse great humanitie towards him while he liued and afterwards to burie him with great pompe Quintilian was the first that receiued the honor of a publike stipend for teaching of a publike schoole in Rome To these may be added Callidius Caluus Cornificius Salust Sceneca T. Liuius Persius Lucan and many more worthie to be named which if I should do Icaria numerum dicere coner aquae Generally therefore let vs remember how this second Schoole hath béene erected and mainteyned by the liberalitie of Kings Princes grand captaines and other noble men and then frequented and exercised by men of great estimation and wisedome in France in England in Germanie in Egypt in Chaldea in all the Countries of Greece and last of all in Italie But what Must we fetch examples of schooling either of the Hebrewes that liued so long ago or els of the Heathen which besides that they liueâ— long ago were also of a contrarie religion
Are there no examples thereof to be found in these latter ages and in our owne religion Yes verely such examples as one of them is enough to counterpâ—ise yea to weigh downe the heauiest examples of the two former though he lay them all together For in the former Schooles God was acknowledged to be the author of discipline and learning but man was the instrument and messenger by whose seruice God did put it in practise but this latter Schoole was not onely instituted by the authoritie of our gratious God but also the first Doctor therein was his only déere Sonne our Sauiour Jesus Christ and therefore of him is called the Schoole of Christianitie He as the Prophets had done before taught publikely both the people in the congregation and also was alwayes furnishing of his Disciples and Schollers with store of treasure that out of the same afterwards they might be able like good housholders to bring foorth vnto their audience things both new and old The noble actes and practises of which Schollers are in the new Testament set foorth to the viewe of all men so that it is néedlesse to say any thing thereof only I note briefely that they forsooke all their wealth and worldly promotions that they bare many times much trouble and bitter affliction to the end that they might become good Schollers in this Schoole These Schollers at length being Doctors to wit Apostles Euangelists Prophets and Ministers walked in the steps of Christ their maister and of the old Prophets their predecessors not only teaching the multitude in the congregation but also making their Schollers learned and fit for some function in preaching the Gospell As to passe by all the rest S. Paule instructed Timothy Titus Erastus Archippus Epaphroditus Denis Stephana and Tychicus with others At Ephesus he taught dayly for the space of two yeares in the Schoole of one Tyrannus And what a diligent Student he was himselfe it may appeare in that he sent from Rome to Troas aboue a thousand miles for his papers and bookes the instruments of studie After the Apostles time was a famous Schoole of Diuinitie institutâ—â— at Alexandria in Aegypt in the which Panteâ—us was the first teacher then Clemens then Origen a Doctor of no lesse learning then fame And about this time flourished Cyprian the Bishop of Carthage Now the Emperout Constantine the Great being the sonne of Helene a woman borne and brought vp in this land in all the countries and prouinces of his large Empire set vp Schooles of all good Artes but especially of Diuinitie not only with liberall stipends mainteining them but also with honorable priuiledges and exemptions defending them So therâ— began to arise the great starres of Christianitie as Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria Gregorie Nazianzene Chrysostome Bishop of Constantinople Basile the great Bishop of Cesarea whome his Father instructed multáque insignem reddidit arte S. Hierome the eloquent Doctor Ambrose Bishop of Milan and Austin his Scholler Bishop of Hippo with many others of the which some were brought vp in the Schoole of humanitie and afterwards conuerted to Christianitie and some from their infancie were trained vp in the Schoole of Christ But what should I staâ—â— in rehearsing the names of a few men of a two or three Countries when as in euery parish of innumerable Countries and Kingdomes throughout all the world not only learned men are ordeined to preach the Gospell and haue seuerall stipends publikly allowed for their maintenance but also Schooles Colledges Uniuersities and other places of studie are euery where erected for the increasing and nourishing of learned men to furnish these vocations as to name some the Colledges and Uniuersities at Paris in the dayes of Charles â—he Great at Bononia and Pauie in Italy at Brâ—ges by Charles King of Bohemia at Craconia Colen Erford in Thuringia at Lipsia at Vienna in Austria at Friburge Basile Ingolstade Tubinga Wittemberge Francford Marpurge S. Andrewes in Scotland and at Maguntia by Ditherus the Bishop where the Arte of Printing the preserger of all Artes was inuented in the yeare of our Lord 1466. But if any man will be rather moued with home examples of his Ancesters then with forraine examples of Strangers this our Countrey of England aswell for embracing Christianitie and all godly learning as also for liberalitie emploied to mainteine the same Tantum alias inter caput extulit vrbes Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi For as the Schoole of humanitie was heere planted when it was yet tender and young so was the Schoole of Christianitie insomuch that our Countreyman Gyldas writeth that the Gospell was receiued heere euen from the comming of Christ in the dayes of Tiberius by the preaching of Ioseph of Arimathea as others declare whome Phillip the Apostle sent hither out of Fraunce Then in the time of the valiant King Arthur the exercise and studie of learning was diligently applied in Southwales The like is recorded to be done an hundred and twenty yeares after in the dayes of Sigebert King of the Eastangles who set vp Schooles of the Gréeke and Latin toong And Egbert King of Kent fortie yeares after followed the same steps of his predecessors King Ethelstane was not only a founder of Schooles for learning but also a profound learned Astronomer himselfe Yet of all our auncient Kings none may be preferred no nor compared to that most vertuous King Alfred either for knowledge in the Artes and all good letters or for loue and diligence to aduance the same For besides that he translated diuers bookes into the vulgar toong and wrote many new of his owne he also instructed all his Children Sonnes and Daughters in the liberall Artes and did shut the dore of climing to any dignitie in the Court against such as wanted the furniture of learning Furthermore he procured with great charges learned men some to be his Counsellers as the godly Diuine Iohn Scot afterwards martired by his Schollers at Malmesburie some to teach the Schooles and Colledges whereof he ordeined diuers in Oxford Therefore now we haue the blessed founder of that famous Uniuersitie of Oxford founded aboue seauen hundred yeres agone whether before or after the founding of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge it is not materiall but in either of them at this day are sixteene goodly Colledges and moreouer in Oxford eight Haules builded by Kings Queens Princes Bishops and other good men and enriched with lands reuenewes stipends as also established and fortified with lawes ample priuiledges and immunities for the maintenance and commoditie of Students and learned men These are two bright fountaines of learning whose wholesome streames runne plentifully abroade watering not only this Realme but also forraine Countries to the great benefit of the Church of God Also by the like good Authors after the same manner and for the same cause were instituted many other houses of learning Colledges and free Schooles as partly we see in this Towne