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ˈhedge-school
A school held by a hedge-side or in the open air, as was once common in Ireland; hence, a poor, mean, low-class school.
1807Edin. Rev. X. 53 The lower Irish are sufficiently well taught, even in their hedge-schools. 1807T. Horne tr. Goede's Trav. II. 81 Bristol [has] a few charity-schools, and two hedge-schools with only one master. 1830W. Carleton Traits Irish Peasantry (1836) II. 142 The worthy pedagogue selected the first green spot on the sunny side of a quick-set-thorn hedge..and there..carried on the work of instruction. From this circumstance the name of Hedge School originated. 1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. viii. (ed. 2) 194 The hedge-school, a name of contempt for institutions in which the smatterings of knowledge could only be obtained. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 394/1 The workmen are Irish; taken from common hedge schools.
Hence hedge-ˈschoolmaster.
1830W. Carleton Traits Irish Peasantry (1836) II. 248 What was Plato himself but a hedge schoolmaster? 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. vi, Paddy Byrne, the hedge-schoolmaster, took him in hand. |