George Heriot's School is an independent primary and secondary school on Lauriston Place in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, with around 1600 pupils, 155 teaching staff and 80 non-teaching staff. It was established in 1628 as George Heriot's Hospital, by bequest of the royal goldsmith George Heriot, and opened in 1659.
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“And so they have left us feeling tired and old.
They never cared for school anyway.
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And the night, the endless, muggy night that is invading our school.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)