Grammar School
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.
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“I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on the simple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.”
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)
“Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.”
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“East, west, north, south, or like a school broke up,
Each hurries toward his home and sporting-place.”
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