Thus I speak, not that I would have it so; but "to your shame," if there
be never a gentleman meet nor able to be lord president. For why are not
the noblemen and young gentlemen of England so brought up in knowledge of
God, and in learning, that they may be able to execute offices in the
commonweal? The king hath a great many of wards, and I trow there is a
Court of Wards: why is there not a school for the wards, as well as there
is a Court for their lands? Why are they not set in schools where they
may learn? Or why are they not sent to the universities, that they may
be able to serve the king when they come to age? If the wards and young
gentlemen were well brought up in learning, and in the knowledge of God,
they would not when they come to age so much give themselves to other
vanities. And if the nobility be well trained in godly learning, the
people would follow the same train. For truly, such as the noblemen be,
such will the people be. And now, the only cause why noblemen be not
made lord presidents, is because they have not been brought up in
learning.
Therefore for the love of God appoint teachers and schoolmasters, you
that have charge of youth; and give the teachers stipends worthy their
pains, that they may bring them up in grammar, in logic, in rhetoric, in
philosophy, in the civil law, and in that which I cannot leave unspoken
of, the word of God.
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