Education
The Gardens provides a unique service to schools and colleges in the West Midlands and beyond. Pupils will enjoy observing the fascinating ways that plants adapt themselves to different world climates. The education programme on offer is cross-curricular and teachers are able to choose from a wide range of different teaching sessions. Schools are able to use the purpose-built education building called the Study Centre that contains fully carpeted rooms, cloakroom space and toilets. The Centre is the hub for all education activities at the Gardens including lesiure learning courses for adults and has rooms available to hire.
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)
“... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“Our basic ideas about how to parent are encrusted with deeply felt emotions and many myths. One of the myths of parenting is that it is always fun and games, joy and delight. Everyone who has been a parent will testify that it is also anxiety, strife, frustration, and even hostility. Thus most major parenting- education formats deal with parental emotions and attitudes and, to a greater or lesser extent, advocate that the emotional component is more important than the knowledge.”
—Bettye M. Caldwell (20th century)