单词 | common school |
释义 | common schooln. Now chiefly U.S. A school open to the children of a particular community or district (originally typically charging a small fee for entry). In later use more generally: a state school.In the mid 19th century American education reformer Horace Mann popularized the term common school to designate a free, non-denominational elementary school run and funded by local government. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > publicly maintained school free school1500 common school1503 public school1636 state school1806 national school1814 burgh-school1864 board-school1873 provided school1902 council school1908 direct-grant school1945 1503 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Pt. 4 (1885) App. 426 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576) XLI. 51 That there schall no priste kepe no scole save oonly oon child to helpe hym to sey masse after that a scole mastur comyth to town, but that every child to resorte to the comyn scole in payne of forfetyng to the chaumber of the towne 20s. of every priste that doth the contrary. a1657 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plantation in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1856) 4th Ser. III. 194 We have no comone schoole for want of a fitt person. ?1790 Anecd. Little Family ii. 2 Not satisfied with what the children might learn at a common school..these worthy people did not merely trust them to servants and the nursery, but always watched over them with careful eyes. 1876 J. Morley in Fortn. Rev. Nov. 636 I could not help noticing that the history classes in their common schools all began their work with the year 1776. 1926 Greensburg (Indiana) Daily News 20 May 3/1 Miss Pauline Hawley has returned to her home at Ossian..after completing her term as art teacher in the local common school. 1943 Daily Mirror 31 July 5/3 If the President of the Board of Education had had the guts to send the sons and daughters of the well-to-do to our common schools, he would have done more to promote education in the country. 2019 @Dunn4KY 16 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 10 Aug. 2020) KY has a state constitution that calls for an efficient system of common schools. Compounds General use as a modifier, as in common school education, common school system, etc. ΚΠ 1796 Addr. to Farmers 45 These necessary accomplishments of a common school education, have proved a source of innocent amusement to many. 1856 H. B. Stowe Dred 107 He was guiltless of all knowledge of common-school learning. 1991 Placerville (Calif.) Mountain-Democrat 5 Nov. a2/3 The Common School system in California struggled into the 20th century before becoming the system of free public education envisioned by John Marvin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1503 |
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