Education
Each year Lichfield schools participate in education projects, culminating in a performance in Lichfield Cathedral. Previous projects have included a Gamelan orchestra; cellist Matthew Barley's Between the Notes; Numerous workshops on everything from drama to close-harmony singing, amongst a huge range of other projects.
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“His education lay like a film of white oil on the black lake of his barbarian consciousness. For this reason, the things he said were hardly interesting at all. Only what he was.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“There are words in that letter to his wife, respecting the education of his daughters, which deserve to be framed and hung over every mantelpiece in the land. Compare this earnest wisdom with that of Poor Richard.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)