In the English education system, central schools were selective secondary education schools between the more prestigious grammar schools and the secondary schools.
Central schools were first established following the 1918 Education Act.
Following the 1944 Education Act, the selection process was changed so that those who failed the 11+ but were considered clever enough to have been entered for it were able to go to central schools.
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“When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,—muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It was Mabbie without the grammar school gates.
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And Mabbie was cut from a chocolate bar.
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