Definition of School

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School

A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupre, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton.

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.

A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.

A session of an institution of instruction.

One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.

The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.

An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.

The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.

The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.

Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.

To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.

To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.

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School Quotations

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain

I've never let my school interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin

School Translations

school in Afrikaans is skool
school in Danish is skole
school in Dutch is leerschool, school
school in Finnish is koulu
school in German is Schule, Schule, Lehranstalt
school in Italian is scuola
school in Latin is ludus
school in Norwegian is skole, skole
school in Portuguese is escola
school in Spanish is escuela, cole
school in Swedish is skola

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