Education

In most schools boys and girls learn together. In the first stage, which is called primary education, all children are educated according to the same program. As they grow older, differences in ability and attainment became very marked, so it is considered necessary to offer deferent programs.

There are three stages of education: primary, or elementary, education, secondary education and higher education.

Primary educationis given to children between 5 and 7 years of age. A primary school is subdivided into an infant school for children aged 5 to 7 and a junior school for children aged 7 to 11. In small country places both the infant department and junior department may be combined under the roof of one school.

Secondary education embraces the children from 11 years of age to 16 years of age. Until recently there were three main types of school according to their abilities. These three types of school still exist, but their number is decreasing. They are being replaced by the so-called comprehensive schools. The comprehensive schools are the most modern development in secondary schools. The main advantages of the comprehensive schools are that these schools are open to children of all types of ability from the age of 11; they are large schools which give a much wider range of subjects than smaller schools, so that teenagers can choose a course of studies according to their individual inclinations and abilities.

QUESTIONS

1. Are all children educated according to same programme or different programmes?

2. Which is the first stage of education?

3. Which is the second stage of education? Which were the three main types of secondary school until recently? Do these three types of school still exist?

4. Which is the most modern development in the secondary schools?

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