Education
See Category:High schools in York Region
Public schools, with classes up to grade 12, are administered by the York Region District School Board, which operates 180 schools. In addition, the York Catholic District School Board operates 95 schools with a curriculum based in Roman Catholic doctrine.
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology has three campuses located in York Region, in King, Markham and Newmarket. There is currently no university presence in York Region, however, York University is located just outside of York Region's southern border in Toronto.
In addition, there are many other religious and private schools located in the Region. These include:
- Academy for Gifted Children (Richmond Hill)
- The Country Day School (King City)
- Holy Trinity School (Richmond Hill)
- Leo Baeck Day School (Thornhill)
- Ner Israel Yeshiva College (Thornhill)
- Netivot HaTorah Day School (Thornhill)
- Pickering College (Newmarket)
- St. Andrew's College (Aurora)
- St. Thomas of Villanova College (King City)
- Town Centre Montessori Private School (Markham)
- Blyth Education (Thornhill)
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“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)
“Think of the importance of Friendship in the education of men.... It will make a man honest; it will make him a hero; it will make him a saint. It is the state of the just dealing with the just, the magnanimous with the magnanimous, the sincere with the sincere, man with man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I am not describing a distant utopia, but the kind of education which must be the great urgent work of our time. By the end of this decade, unless the work is well along, our opportunity will have slipped by.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)