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What is School?

What is School? A school is generally called any center where teaching is provided, at any level of education: preschool, primary, secondary, preparatory, university. The word, as such, comes from the Latin schola, and this in turn from the Greek σχολή (scholḗ), which translates ‘leisure’, ‘free time’. The school is the institution where it is… Read More »