Education
The island-operated crèche is located in the Recreation Centre. Christmas Island District High School, catering for students in grades P-12 is run by the Western Australian Education Department. Students wishing to complete university education must do so on mainland Australia.
The island has one public library.
Read more about this topic: Christmas Island
Famous quotes containing the word education:
“Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.”
—Jean Piaget (1896–1980)
“I prefer to finish my education at a different school.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)