Aurobindo studied in
the Manchester Grammar School for a period of about five years. . . . The Head
Master of St. Paul’s from the first entertained a very high opinion of
Aurobindo’s character and attainments.Sri Aurobindo
Autobiographical Notes
and Other Writings of Historical Interest
Part One. Autobiographical Notes
2. Sri Aurobindo’s corrections of statements in a proposed biography
Early Life in India and England. 1872–1893
School Studies [3]
[Another version]
Aurobindo studied in
the Manchester Grammar School for a period of about five years. . . . The Head
Master of St. Paul’s from the first entertained a very high opinion of
Aurobindo’s character and attainments.
Sri Aurobindo never went to Manchester Grammar School. His two brothers studied there, but he himself was educated privately by Mr. and Mrs. Drewett. Drewett was an accomplished Latin scholar; he did not teach him Greek, but grounded him so well in Latin that the headmaster of St. Paul’s school took up Aurobindo himself to ground him in Greek and then pushed him rapidly into the higher classes of the school.