The kinds of consumer protection issues that FHEAP champions have also played a central role in the regulation of the University of Paris of the thirteenth century, where there was concern about the "lack of maturity among the Paris scholars."

As recounted by John Baldwin, "One of the common complaints of contemporary observers and moralists was that masters were beginning to teach before they had acquired sufficient knowledge. Pink-cheeked youths were mounting professional chairs to display their fatuous ignorance. This criticism implied that the Chancellor of Notre-Dame and the Abbot of Sainte-Geneviéve were not rigorous enough in issuing licenses to teach."

 

Of course, the same can be said of the community college systems in the South!

" 'Believe only the bearded master,' became the slogan of the critics. In 1215 [the same year that the Magna Carta was sealed by King John] a papal legate decreed that a master of arts must have achieved his twenty-first year after six years of study and that a master of theology must be at least thirty-five and have studied for eight years." (John Baldwin, The Scholastic Culture of the Middle Ages, 1971, page 50)