Education
In addition to its public school system, Bellingham is home to several colleges and universities, the largest (with more than 15,000 students) being Western Washington University, which includes Fairhaven College; Huxley College; and the Woodring College of Education. Others institutions include Whatcom Community College; Bellingham Technical College; Northwest Indian College; a satellite campus of Trinity Western University; Charter College;
There are three public high schools in the city: Bellingham High School, Sehome High School and Squalicum High School. The city also has four middle schools, including Whatcom Middle School which was recently rebuilt after extensive fire damage in 2009.
For-profit schools include Evergreen Team Concepts and Lean Leadership Institute.
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.”
—Laurent A. Daloz (20th century)
“Toward education marriage nervous breakdown, operation, teaching
school, and learning to be mad, in a dream—what is this
life?”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“It’s fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)