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A school is both the educational institution and building designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools that can be built and operated by both government and private organization. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the Regional terms section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university.

In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational school, college or seminary may be available after secondary school. A school may be dedicated to one particular field, such as a school of economics or dance. Alternative schools may provide nontraditional curriculum and methods. (Full article...)

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Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing is a book about the English boarding school Summerhill School by its headmaster A. S. Neill. It is known for introducing his ideas to the American public. It was published in America on November 7, 1960, by the Hart Publishing Company and later revised as Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood in 1993. Its contents are a repackaged collection from four of Neill's previous works. The foreword was written by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, who distinguished between authoritarian coercion and Summerhill.

The seven chapters of the book cover the origins and implementation of the school, and other topics in childrearing. Summerhill, founded in the 1920s, is run as a children's democracy under Neill's educational philosophy of self-regulation, where kids choose whether to go to lessons and how they want to live freely without imposing on others. The school makes its rules at a weekly schoolwide meeting where students and teachers each have one vote alike. Neill discarded other pedagogies for one of the innate goodness of the child. (Full article...)

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Samuel Phillips Hall at Phillips Academy

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Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts is the oldest continuously running incorporated boarding school in the United States. Among other notable alumni, Andover has educated two American Presidents, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, Law and Order creator Dick Wolf, four Medal of Honor recipients, inventor Samuel Morse, and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..

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1823 – Raffles Institution, the oldest school in Singapore, is founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

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1987 – In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania rules against the Dover Area School District, holding that teaching intelligent design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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1857 – Britain calls on the schoolboys of La Martiniere Lucknow to aid in the residency's defence during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Because of their contributions, La Martiniere Lucknow is the only school in the world to have been awarded royal battle honours

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...that Clontarf Aboriginal College (pictured) in Australia has at various points in its history served as an orphanage, a convent, an RAAF training facility, a boarding school and a day school?

...that Wyoming Seminary, a private school in Kingston, Pennsylvania, participated in the first nighttime American football game in 1892?

...that Immediate Past President of the American Bar Association Michael S. Greco taught English at Phillips Exeter Academy before attending law school?

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Béla Heinrich Bánáthy (Hungarian: Bánáthy Béla; December 1, 1919 – September 4, 2003) was a Hungarian-American linguist, and Professor at San Jose State University and UC Berkeley. He is known as founder of the White Stag Leadership Development Program, established the International Systems Institute in 1982, and was co-founder of the General Evolutionary Research Group in 1984.

He grew up in largely rural Hungary and served in the Hungarian military during World War II. When Russia invaded Hungary in April 1945, he and his family fled to Allied-occupied Austria and lived in a displaced persons camp for six years. In 1951, they emigrated to Chicago, sponsored by the Presbyterian church. Within the year his former commanding officer suggested to the U.S. government that they hire Bánáthy as a Hungarian instructor at the Army Language School in Monterey, California. While living in Monterey, he founded the White Stag Leadership Development Program. (Full article...)

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... that WBAA, the radio station of Purdue University, received its broadcast license 100 years ago today?
... that Croydon-based rapper ZieZie started studying carpentry in college before he decided to focus on music?
... that the Alma Mater statue at Columbia University was damaged by an explosion during student protests in 1970?
... that not so much as a "hell" or "damn" was permitted at G. D. Sweet Famous Players' "Sunday school" productions?
... that as chancellor of the University of Victoria, Ronald Lou-Poy conferred degrees in Iqaluit and the Great Hall of the People?
... that, after being elected as the first transgender city councilor of Belo Horizonte, Duda Salabert was fired from her job as a teacher when the school where she worked received a threatening email?
... that Professor of Engineering and the Arts Linda Doyle in 2021 became the first female provost (head) of Trinity College Dublin since its 1592 foundation by Elizabeth I?
... that after Bishop Sycamore High School lost a televised football game 58–0, it was reported that the school did not teach its students?

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Image 1A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 2Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 3World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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Image 4City College of New York (from College)
Image 5A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 6Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 7Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 8The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 9West Park Secondary School in Toronto is an example. It was built in 1968 for students with slow learning or special needs. (from Vocational school)
Image 10Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 11Loyola School, Chennai, India – run by the Catholic Diocese of Madras. Christian missionaries played a pivotal role in establishing modern schools in India. (from School)
Image 12Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 13Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 14Pomona College (from College)
Image 15Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 16Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 17Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 18Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 19György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 20Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 21King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 22Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 23RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 24A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 25Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 26A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 27First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 28The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 29Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 30A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 31Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 32The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 33St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 34Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 35Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 36The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 37Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 38Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 39Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 40SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 41A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 42To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 43Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 44Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 45Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 46St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 47Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 48Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 49Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 50The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 51Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 52Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 53Albert Bettannier's 1887 painting La Tache noire depicts a child being taught about the "lost" province of Alsace-Lorraine in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War – an example of how European schools were often used in order to inoculate Nationalism in their pupils. (from School)
Image 54One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 55King's College London in 1831, as engraved by J. C. Carter. It is one of the founding institutions of University of London, established in 1836. (from History of education)
Image 56Scripps College (from College)
Image 57Saint Anselm College (from College)

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