Education
Further education in Yeovil is principally offered by Yeovil College, with land-based studies available through a Yeovil centre of Bridgwater College, and some provision through private providers. It also contains one higher education university centre, University Centre Yeovil. The registered awarding body for the university centre is Bournemouth University.
Secondary education in Yeovil is provided by four schools. Westfield Academy is situated on Stiby Road. It has four main buildings on site and over 15 different facilities.Bucklers Mead Academy has specialist Music and Technology Facilities. Past pupils include Sir Ian Botham. Preston School is situated on Monks Dale and is under five minutes walk from Westfield School. Preston is a specialist Business and Enterprise College. Past pupils include actress Sarah Parish. The Park School, situated near to the centre of the town, is Yeovil's independent school offering co-education for day students and boarders.
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“You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.”
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“In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal family man. Children were taught primarily to be good to their families. To revere gods, one’s parents, and the laws of the state were the primary lessons for Roman boys. Cicero described the goal of their child rearing as “self- control, combined with dutiful affection to parents, and kindliness to kindred.””
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