单词 | secondary modern school |
释义 | > as lemmassecondary modern school g. secondary education or instruction: that between the primary or elementary education and the higher or university education; secondary school, one in which such education is given; also secondary modern school: a secondary school of a kind established by the Education Act of 1944, offering a general education to children not selected for grammar or technical schools (cf. central school n. at central adj. Compounds and modern adj.); also (in colloquial use) elliptical as secondary modern (frequently attributive). ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > secondary school high schoolc1417 academyc1550 real school1765 central school1794 secondary school1809 real scholar1822 lyceum1827 Realschule1833 gymnasium1834 continuation-school1837 college1841 lycée1865 middle school1870 high1871 senior school1871 senior high1909 secondary modern school1943 comprehensive1947 secondary1962 community college1967 multilateral1967 sec-mod1968 society > education > [noun] > systematic education > education at school > at secondary school secondary education or instruction1876 1809 R. L. Edgeworth Ess. Professional Educ. i. 41 In the secondary schools for boys of nine or ten.., the principles of general grammar should be explained. 1835 Southern Literary Messenger 1 275 Others classify them into 1st primary schools..2nd secondary schools, for the rudiments of Arithmetic, Geography, English Grammar, and further progress in reading and writing. 1852 Indiana Hist. Soc. Publ. III. 615 Those engaged in studies of a more advanced character constitute another class, termed secondary. 1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France Introd. 39 The public secondary schools of France. 1863 M. Arnold in Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 355/1 The Royal Commissioners have thought themselves precluded..from making a thorough inquiry into the system of secondary instruction on the Continent. 1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. ii. 128 Schools in which elementary and secondary instruction were formerly given. 1882 M. Arnold Irish Ess. 130 Schools giving secondary education, as it is called—that fuller and higher instruction which comes after elementary instruction. 1892 Bill Registration Teachers Secondary Schools 1 in Parl. Papers IX. 371 This Act may be cited as the Secondary School Teachers Registration Act, 1892. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 663/2 The school which seeks to retain its pupil to the age of sixteen or seventeen, and to prepare him to enter a skilled trade or one of the minor professions, is a secondary or intermediate school. 1926 W. H. Hadow et al. Rep. Consult. Comm. Educ. Adolescent (Board of Educ.) 266 The expression ‘secondary school’ was borrowed from the French ‘école secondaire’, which was used apparently for the first time in the Rapport et projet de décret sur l'organisation générale de l'instruction publique, submitted to the Legislative Assembly by Condorcet in April, 1792. 1937 Burlington Mag. Sept. 107/2 No student..can possibly acquire more than a secondary-school smattering in the subject. 1943 C. Norwood et al. Curriculum & Exam. in Secondary Schools (Board of Educ.) i. iii. 15 At the age of 11+, or earlier in some cases, a child would pass into one of the three types of secondary education which we have postulated, secondary Grammar School, secondary Technical School, secondary Modern School. 1955 Punch 30 Mar. 404/2 ‘The thing that makes me nervous,’ I said tentatively, ‘is if they fail their 11-plus and land up in a Secondary Modern.’ 1956 H. Loukes Secondary Mod. i. 45 They are not to be regarded, these secondary modern children, as a backward group. 1961 M. Kelly Spoilt Kill ii. 103 He taught maths in a secondary modern somewhere down south. 1976 Yorkshire Evening Press 9 Dec. 13/6 Derwent Secondary Modern School, York, was entered and £6.50 stolen. 1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 14 Dec. 6/2 His early education finished at 14 when he left the Player Secondary School. 1982 Guardian 26 Apr. 3/2 Critics say it is a back door way of re-introducing grammar and secondary modern schools. < as lemmas |
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