Grammar School
- David Coverdale (musician)(born 1951) British rock vocalist born in Middlesbrough and lead singer of band Whitesnake
- Maurice Foley CMG (1925–2002), British Labour Party politician, MP, junior minister and professional civil servant with the European Commission.
- Donald Tyerman CBE, Editor from 1956-65 of The Economist
- Paul Vallely CMG, journalist
- Rt Rev Kevin Vasey OBE, Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain and Vicar General (Army) from 1997-2002
- Ged Parsons Writer of television programmes such as 'Have I Got News For You'.
- John McKitterick - Head of Fashion Design Department, Kingston University
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Famous quotes containing the words grammar school, grammar and/or school:
“I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on the simple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.”
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)
“Grammar is a tricky, inconsistent thing. Being the backbone of speech and writing, it should, we think, be eminently logical, make perfect sense, like the human skeleton. But, of course, the skeleton is arbitrary, too. Why twelve pairs of ribs rather than eleven or thirteen? Why thirty-two teeth? It has something to do with evolution and functionalism—but only sometimes, not always. So there are aspects of grammar that make good, logical sense, and others that do not.”
—John Simon (b. 1925)
“A man of sense and energy, the late head of the Farm School in Boston Harbor, said to me, “I want none of your good boys,Mgive me the bad ones.” And this is the reason, I suppose, why, as soon as the children are good, the mothers are scared, and think they are going to die.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)