Education
- Sunderland is home to the University of Sunderland. Most university facilities are arranged over two campuses: the City Campus is located on Chester Road, to the immediate west of the city centre, and the 1990s Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St Peters lies on the north bank of the River Wear, adjacent to the historic St Peter's Church (AD674). There previously existed a Ryhope Road Campus in the Ashbrooke district, but most - though not all - university premises have been relocated to the main two campuses.
- Further Education is provided by the City of Sunderland College, which has five centres across the city: Bede, Hylton, St Peters, Shiney Row, and Usworth. There are also sixth forms attached to three schools: St Robert of Newminster in Washington for boys and girls, St Anthony's for girls, and St Aidan's for boys, both in the Ashbrooke area of Sunderland.
- There are 17 state secondary schools, including three newly-built academy schools, and 77 state primary schools serving the children of Sunderland.
- There are also three independent schools, teaching children at primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
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“Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.”
—Jean Piaget (1896–1980)
“His education lay like a film of white oil on the black lake of his barbarian consciousness. For this reason, the things he said were hardly interesting at all. Only what he was.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)