Purley High School for Boys shield and school motto
Purley High School for Boys existed from 1914 to 1988. It was located in Placehouse Lane, Old Coulsdon rather than Purley, London Borough of Croydon. The school was Purley County Grammar School from 1914-1969, becoming Purley High School for Boys after the abolition of the Grammar School system and the implementation of the Comprehensive System. Purley High School had a reputation for strictness and for a liberal caning policy. Its record on canings received the attention of STOPP during in the 70's and 80's. This attention resulted in Purley High School for Boys being mentioned in numerous articles in the national press regarding, what was criticised as, its excessive corporal punishment record. The school was mentioned in articles in The Sun, The Guardian and the Daily Express. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Old Coulsdon is a small village near Coulsdon in London, United Kingdom and part of the London Borough of Croydon. ... Purley is the name of more than one place. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A Grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in Britain. ... The Comprehensive System is a system of education in the United Kingdom and other countries, based on all-ability comprehensive schools. ... STOPP - Society of Teachers Opposed to Physical Punishment (1968-1989) This UK based organisation was instrumental in the abolition of corporal punishment within UK high schools. ... This article is about a British tabloid. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... For other uses, see Daily Express (disambiguation). ...
The school motto was Fas et Patria, meaning Faith and Country.
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Aerial photo of Purley High School for Boys. Other map and aerial photo sources.
Coulsdon College which now occupies the school buildings
Having deduced from the principle of utility the proposition that representative democracy was the basic means of securing good government and having shown that "intellectual aptitude"(15) among the voting public was the only prerequisite to the choice of suitable representatives, Mill turned his attention to the question of the property qualification.
It is altogether futile with regard to the foundation of good government to say that this or the other portion of the people, may at this, or the other time, depart from the wisdom of the middle rank.
It is, however, worth remembering that Filangieri was himself heavily indebted for his argument to the Italian utilitarian Cesare Beccaria and that it is quite possible that the seeds of Mill's later single-minded devotion to utilitarian philosophy might well have been planted thanks to his encounter with Filangieri in 1806.
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