Education
The Gardens provides a unique service to schools and colleges in the West Midlands and beyond. Pupils will enjoy observing the fascinating ways that plants adapt themselves to different world climates. The education programme on offer is cross-curricular and teachers are able to choose from a wide range of different teaching sessions. Schools are able to use the purpose-built education building called the Study Centre that contains fully carpeted rooms, cloakroom space and toilets. The Centre is the hub for all education activities at the Gardens including lesiure learning courses for adults and has rooms available to hire.
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press On”, has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“How to attain sufficient clarity of thought to meet the terrifying issues now facing us, before it is too late, is ... important. Of one thing I feel reasonably sure: we can’t stop to discuss whether the table has or hasn’t legs when the house is burning down over our heads. Nor do the classics per se seem to furnish the kind of education which fits people to cope with a fast-changing civilization.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“There are words in that letter to his wife, respecting the education of his daughters, which deserve to be framed and hung over every mantelpiece in the land. Compare this earnest wisdom with that of Poor Richard.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)