Anton Musa in his "Anslagk, wie die Schulen yn Steten Widder anzurichten seyen" had expressed the opinion that foreign or poor boys attending school should be allowed to beg in towns, and that the preachers should announce this to the people, and also the officials should spread it, so that the poor people would send their children to school, where they could not be maintained without support. Luther gives this expert opinion.
The original in Luther's hand is in the Weimar Archives, Reg. Mm. Printed by Burkhardt, p. 316.
Such a concern pleases me well, for the rich raise their children to wealth and not to the service of the Word.
No. 2495.