Secondary School Education

Famous quotes containing the words secondary, school and/or education:

    “A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “It was Mabbie without the grammar school gates.
    And Mabbie was all of seven.
    And Mabbie was cut from a chocolate bar.
    And Mabbie thought life was heaven.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, its probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)