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Upper secondary schooling arguably predates mass basic educational provision by centuries. Until well into the nineteenth century, the sons of the European aristocracy and the wealthier mercantile class, after completing a period of home schooling by private tutors, were dispatched to schools that drilled them in all the eminently useful things a young gentleman needed to know, such as Latin and the Greek classics, in preparation for university study. In functional terms, upper secondary schooling could be regarded as having existed well before the term secondary schooling entered the educational lexicon.
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Vlaardingerbroek, B., Taylor, N., Lyons, T. (2014). Introduction. In: Vlaardingerbroek, B., Taylor, N. (eds) Issues in Upper Secondary Science Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137275967_1
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