In fact, Charlemagne (the king of the Franks who later became a Roman emperor) issued several decrees requiring cathedrals and monasteries to establish schools so that “children [could] learn to read; that psalms, notation, chant, computation, and grammar [could] be taught . . .”15 using teachers who had “the will and the ability to learn and a desire to instruct others.”16 Within a few centuries, the first modern universities were established in Bologna, Oxford, and Paris. All were founded by Jesus followers.
