Note 483 — Chapter VI · GIRTON AND NEWNHAM

The first man to maintain that girls had a right to as good an education as boys, was a Cantab (Eton and King’s College) a master at the new Merchant-Taylors’ school, and afterwards headmaster of Colet’s school. Lancelot Andrewes was one of his pupils. This famous Cantab and famous schoolmaster—Richard Mulcaster—also advised that teachers should be trained to teach. In the xviii c. Defoe’s appreciation of the woman with ‘knowledge’—“well-bred and well-taught”—led to his suggestion that there should be a college for her higher education.