Education
Unusually there are no state schools or independent schools in Newnham. Newnham Middle School is not even in Newnham, it is located in De Parys.
Most lower school age children in the area attend a school in nearby Goldington or Castle. For older children the area is served by either Goldington Academy or Newnham Middle School. Newnham's upper school students generally are in the catchment areas for Bedford Academy and Biddenham Upper School.
Read more about this topic: Newnham, Bedford
Famous quotes containing the word education:
“The education of females has been exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty. ... though well to decorate the blossom, it is far better to prepare for the harvest.”
—Emma Hart Willard (1787–1870)
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, its probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften the manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination, and a kind of polish to the mind in severer studies.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)