Schools and Education
There are several primary schools in Birtley including one large senior school, Lord Lawson of Beamish School, situated in the West. The school was rebuilt in 2007 and the old build later demolished. There are several famous past students from Lord Lawson, including footballers Bryan Robson, Gary Madine, the broadcaster and TV presenter Matthew Davies and Chris Felton, a radio presenter and producer for Metro Radio, CFM Radio, TFM Radio and the Magic Network. The local primary school Ravensworth Terrace was rated with an Ofsted approval of outstanding in January 2012.
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Famous quotes containing the words schools and, schools and/or education:
“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parents.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There comes a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)