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Compulsory education

Compulsory education
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period of education required for a person

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  1. At 6 o'clock the students are called, " 7 to 8 studies, " 8 to 9 scripture-reading, prayers, and breakfast, " 9 to 12 studies, " 12 to 1¼ leisure, nominally devoted to walking or other exercise, but often spent in study, " 1¼ to 2 dinner, the meal commonly occupying twenty minutes, " 2 to 5 studies, " 5 to 6 tea and relaxation, " 6 to 8½ studies, " 8½ to 9½ private studies in preparing lessons for the next day, " 10…

    Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects

    States what Compulsory education is.

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  2. The gipsies, whose mode of life has been rendered almost impossible by the education authorities, might well have been allowed to remain a picturesque exception. But apart from such rather unimportant exceptions, the argument for compulsory education is irresistible. What the State does for the care of children at present is less than what ought to be done, not more.

    Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight

    States what Compulsory education is; names Compulsory education twice.

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  3. The large number of foreign pupils is also more efficiently dealt with. The newcomer concentrates on English and reading and writing until he is able to go into the grade where his age would naturally place him, and the pupil who expects to go to school only a very short time before going to work can be put into the classes which will give him what he needs most, regardless of his age or grade. The work around the…

    John Dewey, Schools of to-morrow

    Close in meaning to Compulsory education; the term itself is not named.

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