What was the name of Priestley's high school?
Tewkesbury High School
His father's school
University College School
Bristol Grammar School
Answer
Joseph Priestley's father was a dissenting minister and schoolteacher in Birstall, Yorkshire. Priestley was educated at his father's school. Priestley's father taught his son a classical education, which included Latin, Greek, and mathematics. Priestley also learned English grammar, composition, and rhetoric.
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