The two most lasting memorials of the reign of the studious boy-king were the English Book of Common Prayer, and the Grammar Schools which were founded with money left over from the confiscated church lands, which had supported schools in the days of the monks.

This scene shows the young king granting the charter for the foundation of Christ's Hospital. The school still survives, and its formal uniform is still the long, full coat of King Edward's day, with leather belt, white bands at the neck and bright yellow stockings.

He hath made already forty or fifty pretty Latin verses, is now ready to enter into Cato, to some proper and profitable fables of Aesop. Every day he readeth a portion of Solomon's proverb's, wherein he delighteth much and learneth there to beware of strange women, and to be thankful to him who telleth him of his faults.
- Edward's Tutor.