ABSTRACT
The Grammar School system in the 16th and 17th centuries entered deeply into the national thought and life. Education of the classical type supplied in Grammar Schools was popular. The ‘private Grammar School’ had the same type of classical education as the public school. The types of parents who sent their boys to the local Grammar School may be seen by an analysis of the list of Colchester Grammar School in 1643. The Renascence Grammar Schools in England may be said to be those founded between 1509 and 1559. The unity and continuity of Grammar School practice in the 16th and 17th centuries are therefore to be sought in the twofold aims of classicism and religious training. A study of the curriculum and the school text-books of the 16th and 17th centuries, shows that the English Grammar Schools gained much of their vitality and inspiration from the national life, in its most intense manifestation in Puritanism.
