grammar-schools

I thought, and not without some shame and sorrow, of our grammar-schools in Germany, and the miserable pay of the masters.

Travels in England in 1782 2004

He thus discriminated, to Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, his progress at his two grammar-schools.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

To the boys and girls of more advanced age severe, sombre gymnasiums and grammar-schools did indeed open their doors.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

Boston has forty first class grammar-schools, _exclusive of Dorchester_.

Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

And all this because brother Jo must needs bring a fine lady amongst us, and with her nothing but grammar-schools, boarding-schools, and colleges.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

The art of prose has little to do with the stiff and pedantic English taught in grammar-schools and a great deal less to do with the loose and lively English spoken by the average American in his daily traffic.

Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 2. Spoken American As It Is Henry Louis 1921

But I fear this faculty of the mind is not capable of much help and amendment in general by any exercise or endeavour of ours, at least not by that used upon this pretence in grammar-schools.

Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 171-180 1909

But this I think I may say, there is more stir a great deal made with it than there needs, and those are tormented about it, to whom it does not at all belong; I mean children, at the age wherein they are usually perplexed with it in grammar-schools.

Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 161-170 1909

But though these qualifications, requisite to trade and commerce and the business of the world, are seldom or never to be had at grammar-schools, yet thither not only gentlemen send their younger sons, intended for trades, but even tradesmen and farmers fail not to send their children, though they have neither intention nor ability to make them scholars.

Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 161-170 1909

Another thing very ordinary in the vulgar method of grammar-schools there is, of which I see no use at all, unless it be to baulk young lads in the way to learning languages, which, in my opinion, should be made as easy and pleasant as may be; and that which was painful in it, as much as possible quite removed.

Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 171-180 1909