What Does Secondary Education Mean?
With the Reformation the state wrestled the control of learning from the church, and with Comenius and John Locke education changed from being repetition of Latin text to building up information within the baby. Up to the center of the 19th century, secondary schools were organised to fulfill the wants of different social classes with the labouring courses getting 4 years, the merchant class 5 years and the elite getting 7 years. The rights to a secondary education were codified after 1945, and nations are still working to attain the goal of necessary and free secondary education for all youth…