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I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today.

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

I went to prep school for one year in Arizona. It was called Orme.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

I went to public school up until junior high.

I enjoyed every minute of being at school. I was doing my work but still playing football.

We went to public schools from kindergarten through seventh grade, and it was fun.

When I was 11, I had just started my comprehensive school.

I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn't have girls, and they played rugby instead of football.

I went to public school my entire life.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

Except for a short period at the end of World War II, I attended an elementary school affiliated to Kobe University from ages six to twelve and then moved on to Nada Middle and High School from ages twelve to eighteen. I enjoyed many out-door activities in my youth.

If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

I was a good student in school.

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

My parents decided - because they were not going to teach us anything Jewish at home - to send both me and my sister to a Jewish primary school. So I went to Kerem Primary School in Hampstead Garden Suburb. But, for me, that school really didn't work that well.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to King Edward VI High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.