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• “I advocate, therefore, the teaching of physical science in our schools -- _in all our schools_.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881

• “England do at the private schools of England; and they leave the _primary schools_ of these countries _much better instructed_ than those who leave our _middle class private schools_.”

  International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850

• “The towns, or townships, are divided into districts of suitable size for schools, which are called _district schools_.”

  The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.

• “Nearly two years ago, he was appointed agent for the Colony, to collect funds to build a meeting-house, to endow schools, &c. In less than one year he received more than two thousand dollars, which he squandered; and we have neither _meeting-house_ nor _schools_, nor never”

  Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West

• “The English named their classical schools after the chief subject of study, hence the English _grammar schools_.”

  The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization

• “Still another type of elementary school, which did not arise until near the latter part of the period under consideration in this chapter, but which will be enumerated here as descriptive of a type which later became very common, came through wills, and the schools came to be known as _chantry schools_, or _stipendary schools_.”

  The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization

• “= -- The first Christian schools were _catechumen schools_.”

  History of Education

• “2 I conceded that depending how one defines “the left”, it may or may not be reasonable to say that some pseudoscientific positions are associated with them, but that in the US, in the last few decades, there has not been any serious, concerted effort by anyone other than right wing supporters of ID/creationism to deny and distort science in public schools, or to introduce pseudoscience to the science curriculum in public schools*.”

  Dry Rot, Not Arson: National Park Service and Science - The Panda's Thumb

• “From eighty to one hundred scholars is the largest number that ever should be gathered into one institution; when they exceed this, _let additional schools be opened_; in other words, _increase the number, not the size, of the schools_.”

  Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1

• “The pace of change in schools is too slow and the pace of change in technology is too quick.”

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