Famous quotes containing the words primary school, primary and/or school:
“Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and classroom organization, instructional materials, and particular teaching practices.”
—Children and Their Primary Schools, vol. 1, ch. 3, Central Advisory Council for Education, London (1967)
“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”
—Lionel Trilling (19051975)
“Children in home-school conflict situations often receive a double message from their parents: The school is the hope for your future, listen, be good and learn and the school is your enemy. . . . Children who receive the school is the enemy message often go after the enemyact up, undermine the teacher, undermine the school program, or otherwise exercise their veto power.”
—James P. Comer (20th century)