At the age of five an english child lets go of his mother's apron strings and goes out into the wide world. For the next six years his world is the primary school.
At the ripe old age of eleven, he moves on to secondary school where he continues to learn the traditional subjects: English, maths, music, a foreign language, history, geography. But he will also begin to study science, another language and subjects like cookery, woodwork (both boys and girls) and more music.
Education is compulsory until the age of sixteen.
State secondary schools are known as Comprehansive schools. But it is impossible to generalize about them. They vary considerably from area to area.
A hundred different local authorities administer them and the headmasters and headmistresses have far more influence than their counterparts in other European countries.
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