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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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Stonyhurst College is a co-educational Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition, on the Stonyhurst Estate, Lancashire, England. It occupies a Grade I listed building. The school has been fully co-educational since 1999.

A precursor institution of the college was founded in 1593 by Father Robert Persons SJ at St Omer, at a time when penal laws prohibited Roman Catholic education in England. After moving to Bruges in 1762 and Liège in 1773, the college was headed for oblivion, but for the generosity of an old boy, Thomas Weld (of Lulworth), who intervened. Weld's enormous benefaction enabled the expatriated school to establish itself on English soil in 1794 when it was granted the Stonyhurst estate. It provides boarding and day education to approximately 450 boys and girls aged 13–18. On an adjacent site, its preparatory school, St Mary's Hall, provides education for boys and girls aged 3–13. (Full article...)

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Shenandoah Valley Academy is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational parochial boarding school located in New Market, Virginia. It is ranked as one of the best private schools in Virginia for getting into top ivy, little ivy, and public ivy universities. Pictured is the original building at Shenandoah Valley Academy pictured in 1924.

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May

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1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a decision for Brown v. Board of Education, overturning earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, and declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities.

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1927 – School board member Andrew Kehoe sets up a series of bombs in a Bath Township, Michigan elementary school, killing 45 people and injuring 58. The bombings were the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history and became known as the Bath School disaster.

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1966 – A group of students at the Tsinghua University Middle School in China use the name Red Guards to sign two big-character posters issued on 29 May. The name would eventually become the label for students and other young people in the People's Republic of China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong between 1966 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution.

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... that United States president Abraham Lincoln learned his ABCs when he attended a blab school (pictured) which he walked to in his youth?

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... that three protesters were killed near a Cape Town school by armed police hidden in a "Trojan Horse" vehicle?

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Roman copy (in marble) of a Greek bronze bust of Aristotle by Lysippos (c. 330 BC), with modern alabaster mantle

Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs, pronounced [aristotélɛːs]; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.

Little is known about Aristotle's life. He was born in the city of Stagira in northern Greece during the Classical period. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, and he was brought up by a guardian. At 17 or 18, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of 37 (c. 347 BC). Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored his son Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC. He established a library in the Lyceum, which helped him to produce many of his hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls. (Full article...)

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

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