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Megarian school

(Encyclopedia)Megarian school, Greek school of philosophy at Mégara from late 5th cent. to early 3d cent. b.c. Influenced by the Eleatic school and by Socrates, it was known for its interest in logic and for argum...

graveyard school

(Encyclopedia)graveyard school, 18th-century school of English poets who wrote primarily about human mortality. Often set in a graveyard, their poems mused on the vicissitudes of life, the solitude of death and the...

Frankfurt School

(Encyclopedia)Frankfurt School, a group of researchers associated with the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute of Social Research), founded in 1923 as an autonomous division of the Univ. of Frankfurt. The inst...

intermediate school

(Encyclopedia)intermediate school: see school.

Ionian school

(Encyclopedia)Ionian school, pre-Socratic group of Greek philosophers of the 6th and 5th cent. b.c.; most of them were born in Ionia. Its members were primarily concerned with the origins of the universe—the forc...

Eleatic school

(Encyclopedia)Eleatic school ēlēătˈĭk [key], Greek pre-Socratic philosophical school at Elea, a Greek colony in Lucania, Italy. The group was founded in the early 5th cent. b.c. by Parmenides, its greatest thi...

elementary school

(Encyclopedia)elementary school: see school.

continuation school

(Encyclopedia)continuation school: see vocational education. ...

charter school

(Encyclopedia)charter school, alternative type of American public school that, while paid for by taxes, is independent of the public-school system and relatively free from state and local regulations. A charter sch...

school vouchers

(Encyclopedia)school vouchers, government grants aimed at improving education for the children of low-income families by providing school tuition that can be used at public or private schools. The idea behind schoo...