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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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The Royal Grammar School (originally The Free School) is a selective English independent day school for boys in Guildford, Surrey. Its foundation dates to the death in 1509 of Robert Beckingham who left a provision in his will to "make a free scole at the Towne of Guldford"; in 1512 a governing body was set up to form the school. The school moved to the present site in the upper High Street after the granting of a royal charter from King Edward VI on 27 January 1553. The school became independent and fee paying on 1 September 1977, when the parents and staff raised sufficient funds to purchase it following concerns about the abolition of grammar schools and the introduction of comprehensive education. Initially the school educated 30 of the "poorest men's sons", however numbers have since grown to approximately 900 students, 300 of whom are in the sixth form.

Former pupils of the school are referred to as "Old Guildfordians" and are often referred to as "OGs" in official school correspondence. Since the school's founding, notable alumni have included the 75th Archbishop of Canterbury, Olympic athletes, the longest serving speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, several members of the parliament of the United Kingdom, a founding member of the East India Company and the 11th Premier of New Zealand. (Full article...)

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Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík or MR is the oldest gymnasium (Icelandic: Menntaskóli) in Reykjavík, Iceland. Many Icelandic politicians, including former Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson and the current President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, attended MR. Almost every Prime Minister of Iceland has been educated at the school apart from Halldór Ásgrímsson, Ólafur Jóhannesson and Þorsteinn Pálsson.

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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 the Bolhrad High School (pictured) in Bolhrad, Ukraine, was founded by the Bessarabian Bulgarian diaspora as the first high school of the Bulgarian National Revival period?
... that the now defunct Heritage Christian School in Hillsboro, Oregon, once held a chariot race?
... that despite being located in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Assumption Preparatory School followed French custom in holding classes on Saturday mornings but not on Thursday or Saturday afternoons?

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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 Thomas Ragle, the president of Marlboro College from 1958 to 1981, described his position as like a "19th-century college president"?
... that Charlie Wheatley had a seventh-grade education and three honorary degrees in engineering from the University of Tulsa?
... that Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum arrived at the University of Tübingen as a student in 1959, and remained there until her death in 2004?
... that Vikki Blanche did not take her Neighbours audition seriously, thinking that she would not be cast so soon after graduating from school?
... that a mercury spill occurred at Agua Fria High School when students discovered and started playing with an unsecured supply of the element?
... that the Scottish surgeon John Blair was the only dux of his high school to receive his gold medal in the presence of his wife and child?
... that Vivian Smith was the first black student to earn a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Northern Iowa?
... that COVID-19 vaccine scientist Paul Duprex got his start in microbiology by experimenting with his high-school classmates' spit?

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The following are images from various school-related articles on Wikipedia.

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

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