Schools
Grahamstown is the only city in South Africa whose primary commerce sector is that of education. Whilst this statistic is surely abetted by the high cost of the private schools and the relatively small population, it has a remarkable number of schools per capita. Of these, some of the more privileged schools are listed below:
| School | Year Founded | Denomination | Language | Grades | Gender | Private/Public |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Andrew's College | 1855 | Anglican | English | 8-12 | Single sex male (integrated classes with D.S.G. from Gr.10 onwards) | Private |
| Graeme College (known variously before 1939 as Victoria Boys' High School and the Grahamstown Public School) | 1873 | Non-denominational | English | 1-12 | Single sex male | Public |
| Diocesan School for Girls (D.S.G) | 1874 | Anglican | English | 4-12 | Single sex female | Private |
| St Aidan's College | 1876 (closed 1973) | Jesuit | English | ?-12 | Single sex male | Private |
| St. Andrew's Preparatory School | 1885 | Anglican | English | 0-7 | Single sex male (Co-ed. until Gr.4) | Private |
| Kingswood College | 1894 | Methodist | English | 0-12 | Co-educational | Private |
| Victoria Girls' High School | 1897 | Non-denominational | English | 8-12 | Single sex female | Public |
| Victoria Girls' Primary | 1945 | Non-denominational | English | 1-7 | Single sex female | Public |
| Oatlands Preparatory | 1949 | Non-denominational | English | 0-3 | Co-educational | Public |
| P.J. Olivier | 1956 | Non-denominational | Afrikaans | 0-12 | Co-educational | Public |
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Famous quotes containing the word schools:
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (b. 1915)
“In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.”
—Myriam Miedzian, U.S. author. Boys Will Be Boys, ch. 3 (1991)
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)