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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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Page reads "Some Thoughts Concerning Education. London, Printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-noster-row, 1693." — Title page from the first edition of Locke's *Some Thoughts Concerning Education* (1693)

Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on the education of gentlemen written by the English philosopher John Locke. For over a century, it was the most important philosophical work on education in England. It was translated into almost all of the major written European languages during the eighteenth century, and nearly every European writer on education after Locke, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, acknowledged its influence.

In his Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Locke outlined a new theory of mind, contending that the mind is originally a tabula rasa or "blank slate"; that is, it did not contain any innate ideas at birth. Some Thoughts Concerning Education explains how to educate that mind using three distinct methods: the development of a healthy body; the formation of a virtuous character; and the choice of an appropriate academic curriculum. (Full article...)

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Harrow School is a public school for boys located in Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex, England. It is one of the original nine English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. Harrow has many notable alumni, who are known as Old Harrovians, including seven former British Prime Ministers (including Winston Churchill and Robert Peel), and the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. In addition, nineteen Old Harrovians have been awarded the Victoria Cross.

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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 Roseland Christian School (pictured) changed from a completely Dutch-American student body in 1884 to a completely African American one by the mid 1980s?

... that E.S. Richardson Elementary School is named after a Louisiana educator, who ended his career as an administrator of the wartime Office of Price Administration?

... that Evergreen Lutheran High School lost its lease in DuPont, Washington in 1988 and has been looking for another site while sharing land at a local church?

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Erasmus Smith (1611–1691) was an English merchant and a landowner with possessions in England and Ireland. Having acquired significant wealth through trade and land transactions, he became a philanthropist in the sphere of education, treading a path between idealism and self-interest during a period of political and religious turbulence. His true motivations remain unclear.

Smith's family owned manors in Leicestershire and held Protestant beliefs. He became a merchant, supplying provisions to the armies of the Puritan Oliver Cromwell – during Cromwell's suppression of rebellion in Ireland — and an alderman of the City of London. His financial and landowning status was greatly enhanced by benefiting from his father's subscription to the Adventurers' Act from which he gained extensive landholdings in Ireland as a reward, and from his own speculative practice of buying additional subscriptions from other investors. (Full article...)

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... that M. Farooqui, who had been expelled from his studies for having organized a strike in 1940, received his Delhi University degree in a special convocation in 1989?
... that the Jefferson Scholarship gives scholars more than $293,000 to attend the University of Virginia?
... that Miao Poya successfully campaigned to change her high school's uniform policy before becoming one of the first Taipei city councillors to be openly lesbian?
... that Catechumen, a Christian first-person shooter, was funded only in the aftermath of the Columbine High School massacre?
... that the first Black woman to receive tenure in Kent State University's College of Arts & Sciences, Angela Neal-Barnett, emphasizes social support between Black women as "an indigenous form of healing"?
... that during the 2013 Nutellagate controversy, students at Columbia University were accused of costing the university $5,000 in dining hall Nutella per week?
... that Hans Haselböck, later an international concert organist and professor at the Vienna Music Academy, began 65 years as organist at the Dominican Church, Vienna, on 4 November 1949?
... that an Indiana newspaper donated its TV station to the local high school instead of shutting it down?

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Image 1Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 2King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 3Albert 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 4Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 5Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 6One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 7The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 8Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 9The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 10Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 11Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 12A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 13St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 14Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 15Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 16Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 17RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 18Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 19Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 20György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 21Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 22SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 23World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
- 0.950 and over
- 0.900–0.949
- 0.850–0.899
- 0.800–0.849
- 0.750–0.799
- 0.700–0.749
- 0.650–0.699
- 0.600–0.649
- 0.550–0.599
- 0.500–0.549
- 0.450–0.499
- 0.400–0.449
- 0.350–0.399
- under 0.350
- not available
(from History of education)
Image 24Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 25To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 26A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 27King'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 28West 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 29Scripps College (from College)
Image 30Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 31Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 32Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 33Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 34The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 35Agnes Scott College (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 37The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 38Pomona College (from College)
Image 39Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 40Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 41A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 42St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 43A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 44Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 45Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 46Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 47Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 48City College of New York (from College)
Image 49Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 50Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 51A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 52First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 53Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 54Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 55Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 56Loyola 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 57A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)