Education
- History
By the early 1960s, Harold Hill had six secondary schools:
- Broxhill Secondary Modern (Mixed), near the corner of Broxhill Road and Noak Hill Road
- Harold Hill Grammar School (Mixed), on Appleby Drive
- Harrowfield Secondary Modern School (Boys), on Settle Road
- Harrowfield Secondary Modern School (Girls), on Settle Road – next door to, but completely separate from, the Boys' school
- Havering College (Mixed), on Tring Gardens
These schools had been built to cope with the post-WW2 'baby-boom', but because of government education policy, Broxhill and Harold Hill Grammar merged to form Bedford Park Comprehensive. Then because of demographic changes, Quarles Boys' and Girls' Schools later merged with Harrowfield to form the Neave School (later King's Wood). After further name changes and closures, Harold Hill now has just one secondary school, Drapers' Academy, on the site of the former Harrowfield / Neave / King's Wood schools.
Read more about this topic: Harold Hill
Famous quotes containing the word education:
“Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to make education a fundamental issue and to put it high on the nation’s agenda. I proposed to act on my belief that regardless of a family’s financial condition, education should be available to every child in the United States—as much education as he could absorb.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“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)
“Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)