Concept
School
Overview
institution for the education of students by teachers
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In the original texts
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Naturally enough when these popular schools were started, the community turned to the schools already in existence for their curriculum and organization. The old schools, however, were not conducted to give equal opportunity to all, but for just the opposite purpose, to make more marked the line between classes, to give the leisure and moneyed classes something which every one could not get, to cater to their desire…
John Dewey, Schools of to-morrow
names the idea; a chapter is titled for it; states what it is; the book is about it; opens on it
The division next to the primary school is the grammar school. The term is not much used in the West, but is common in the eastern states.
John Dewey, The school and society
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The good effects of the riding school are not commonly so evident. The expense of a riding school is so great, that in most places it is a public institution. The three most essential parts of literary education, to read, write, and account, it still continues to be more common to acquire in private than in public schools; and it very seldom happens, that anybody fails of…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
names the idea; states what it is
When I say that the school is the educational unit, I mean exactly what I say, no larger unit, no smaller unit. Each school must have the claim to be considered in relation to its special circumstances. The classifying of schools for some purposes is necessary. But no absolutely rigid curriculum, not modified by its own staff, should be permissible. Exactly the same principles apply, with the proper modifications…
Alfred North Whitehead, The organisation of thought, educational and scientific
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A sensitive child of exceptional ability had better not go to boarding school, and in extreme cases had better not go to school at all. Of course, a good school is better than a bad home, and a good home is better than a bad school. But where both are good, each case must be decided on its merits.
Bertrand Russell, Education and the good life
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Part of Philosophy of education.