schools

n. European universities during the Middle Ages; scholastics who taught in said universities of medieval Europe

n. any institution of learning; group of people influenced by a common master or system of thought; system; faculty, academic department; large group of fish or sea mammals

v. teach, instruct, provide with an education; train, guide; swim or feed in a large group (about fish or sea mammals)

This article is about institutions for learning. For the concept of "schooling", see Education. For other uses of the word "school", see School (disambiguation) or Educational institution.A school is an institution where students (or "pupils") learn while under the supervision of teachers. In most systems of formal education, students progress through a series of schools: primary school, secondary school, and possibly a university , vocational school or a college. A school may also be dedicated to one particular field, such as a school of economics or a school of dance. In homeschooling and online schools, teaching and learning take place outside of a traditional school building.
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Noun
1. an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900"
(hypernym) educational institution
(hyponym) academy
(member-meronym) staff, faculty
2. a building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning"
(synonym) schoolhouse
(hypernym) building, edifice
(hyponym) conservatory, conservatoire
(part-holonym) school system
(part-meronym) classroom, schoolroom
3. the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?"
(synonym) schooling
(hypernym) education
4. an educational institution's faculty and students; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game"
(hypernym) educational institution
5. the period of instruction in a school; the time period when schools is in session; "stay after school"; "he didn't miss a single day of school"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together"
(synonym) schooltime, school day
(hypernym) time period, period of time, period
(part-meronym) study hall
6. a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting"
(hypernym) body
(hyponym) Ashcan School, Eight
7. a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by"
(synonym) shoal
(hypernym) animal group
(member-meronym) fish
Verb
1. educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"
(hypernym) educate
(hyponym) home-school
(derivation) schooltime, school day
2. train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
(synonym) educate, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise
(hypernym) polish, refine, fine-tune, down
(hyponym) sophisticate
3. swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"
(hypernym) swim
(derivation) shoal

adj. scholastic, methodical

n. school, shoal

(In the early ages most of the instruction of young children was by the parents. The leisure hours of the Sabbaths and festival days brought the parents in constant contact with the children. After the captivity schools came more into use, and at the time of Christ were very abundant. The schools were in connection with the synagogues, which were found in every village of the city and land. Their idea of the value of schools may be gained from such sayings from the Talmud as "The world is preserved by the breath of the children in the schools;" "A town in which there are no schools must perish;" "Jerusalem was destroyed because the education of children was neglected." Josephus says, "Our principal care is to educate our children." The Talmud states that in Bechar there were 400 schools, having each 400 teachers, with 400 children each and that there were 4000 pupils in the house of Rabban Simeon Ben-Gamaliel. Maimonides thus describes a school: "The teacher sat at the head, and the pupils surrounded him as the crown the head so that every one could see the teacher and hear his words. The teacher did not sit in a chair while the pupils sat on the ground but all either sat on chairs or on the ground." The children read aloud to acquire fluency. The number of school-hours was limited, and during the heat of the summer was only four hours. The punishment employed was beating with a strap, never with a rod. The chief studies were their own language and literature the chief school-book the Holy Scriptures; and there were special efforts to impress lessons of morality and chastity. Besides these they studied mathematics, astronomy and the natural sciences. Beyond the schools for popular education there were higher schools or colleges scattered throughout the cities where the Jews abounded.-ED.)