Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco (founded 1536)

The college a Spanish viceroy built and endowed at his own cost in an Indian quarter of Mexico City so that the sons of Nahua lords could be taught Latin, rhetoric, logic and philosophy. Its collegians became the translators without whom the friars' books could not have been made, and one of them governed Mexico City for nearly thirty years. The Franciscan who describes it also records who opposed it, and why the teaching had stopped by the time he wrote.