More grammar schools, it has been said, were founded in the latter years of Henry than in the three centuries before.

The impulse only grew the stronger as the direct influence of the New Learning passed away.

The grammar schools of Edward the Sixth and of Elizabeth, in a word the system of middle-class education which by the close of the century had changed the very face of England, were the outcome of Colet's foundation of St.Paul's.
[Sidenote: The Universities] But the "armed Greeks" of More's apologue found a yet wider field in the reform of the higher education of the country.

On the Universities the influence of the New Learning was like a passing from death to life.
Erasmus gives us a picture of what happened in 1516 at Cambridge where he was himself for a time a teacher of Greek.

"Scarcely thirty years ago nothing was taught here but the _Parva Logicalia_, Alexander, those antiquated exercises from Aristotle, and the _Quaestiones_ of Scotus.