<P> Penn was educated first at Chigwell School, by private tutors whilst in Ireland, and later at Christ Church, Oxford . At that time, there were no state schools and nearly all educational institutions were affiliated with the Anglican Church . Children from poor families had to have a wealthy sponsor to get an education . Penn's education heavily leaned on the classical authors and "no novelties or conceited modern writers" were allowed including William Shakespeare . Foot racing was Penn's favourite sport, and he would often run the more than three - mile (5 km) distance from his home to the school . The school itself was cast in an Anglican mode--strict, humourless, and somber--and teachers had to be pillars of virtue and provide sterling examples to their charges . Though later opposing Anglicanism on religious grounds, Penn absorbed many Puritan behaviours, and was known later for his serious demeanor, strict behavior and lack of humor . </P> <P> After a failed mission to the Caribbean, Admiral Penn and his family were exiled to his lands in Ireland . It was during this period, when Penn was about fifteen, that he met Thomas Loe, a Quaker missionary, who was maligned by both Catholics and Protestants . Loe was admitted to the Penn household and during his discourses on the "Inner Light", young Penn recalled later that "the Lord visited me and gave me divine Impressions of Himself ." </P> <P> A year later, Cromwell was dead, the royalists resurging, and the Penn family returned to England . The middle class aligned itself with the royalists and Admiral Penn was sent on a secret mission to bring back exiled Prince Charles . For his role in restoring the monarchy, Admiral Penn was knighted and gained a powerful position as Commissioner of the Navy . </P> <P> In 1660, Penn arrived at Oxford and enrolled as a gentleman scholar with an assigned servant . The student body was a volatile mix of swashbuckling Cavaliers (aristocratic Anglicans), sober Puritans, and nonconforming Quakers . The new government's discouragement of religious dissent gave the Cavaliers the license to harass the minority groups . Because of his father's high position and social status, young Penn was firmly a Cavalier but his sympathies lay with the persecuted Quakers . To avoid conflict, he withdrew from the fray and became a reclusive scholar . Also at this time, Penn was developing his individuality and philosophy of life . He found that he was not in sympathy with either his father's martial view of the world or his mother's society - oriented sensibilities, "I had no relations that inclined to so solitary and spiritual way; I was a child alone . A child given to musing, occasionally feeling the divine presence ." </P>

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