单词 | free school |
释义 | free schooln. 1. A school which provides teaching free of charge (see also etymological note). Now chiefly historical. 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 1548 Chantry Certif. No. 22 in A. F. Leach Eng. Schools at Reform. (1897) 82 The chauntry of Blakebroke..Founded..by license obtained of Kinge Henry the Sixt to manteigne a discrete priest..to kepe a gramer scoole half free, that ys to seye, taking of scolers lerning gramer 8d. the quarter, and of others lerning to rede 4d. the quarter. 1488 Will of Sir Edmund Shaw (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/8) f. 101v I woll that the said connyng Preeste kepe a Grammer scole contynually in the said Town of Stopforde [= Stockport]..and that he frely without any..salary asking..except only my salary..shall teach, etc.] 1500 Deed Found. Lancaster Grammar Sch. in National Observer (1896) 3 Oct. 578 [The master shall be] a profound grammarian, keping a Fre Scole, teching..the childer unto the utmost profitt, nothing taking therefor. 1503 Will of Sir John Percyvale (Macclesfield 1877) 5 I woll that the said preest shall alway kepe..in the said Town of Maxfeld a Fre Grammar Scole.] c1512 Ordinance Agnes Mellers (MS. c. 1590) in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 453 [She founds at Nottingham] a Free Schole of one maister and Usher..[They are forbidden to] take any other gift..whereby the scollers or their friends should be charged but at the pleasure of the friends of the scholars, save the wages to be paid by the said Guardians. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxi. f. clxxxxviii He [sc. King Alfred] ordeyned the firste grammer Scole at Oxenford, and other free Scoles. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. D3 Be there not..free schooles, where youth may bee brought vp in learning Gratis without any charges to their parents? 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. Cv A free schoole of skolds shalbe set vp for the nonce. 1599 Will of P. Blundell in Rep. Commissioners Charities in Eng. (1820) III. App. 136 [Founding Tiverton Grammar School] My meaning is yt shall be for ever a Free Schole and not a Schole of exaction. 1634 J. Barton Art of Rhetorick (title page) By I. B. Master of the free-school of Kinfare in Staffordshire. 1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 116 There is also a free schoole setled att Carickfergus, which is maintained by the Bishop, Clergy, &c. 1727 in Orig. Bk. Statutes Bury Grammar School (1863) I have ordered my Free Schole of Bury to be free to all boys born in the parish..yet my intent is..not to debar [the masters] from that common priviledg in all Free Scholes of receiving presents, benevolences, gratuities from the scholars. 1759 O. Goldsmith Bee 10 Nov. 162 The manner in which our youth of London are at present educated is, some in free schools in the city, but the far greater number in boarding schools about town. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 164 One needs but go from a charity-school in an English county to a free-school in Massachusetts, to see [etc.]. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. vii. 104 It's a poor boy from the free-school. 1883 Harper's Mag. July 226/1 She sent him to Mr. Love, who then held the post of master of the free school formerly taught by her husband. 1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South i. iii. 78 These same men would take the lead in indignantly rejecting the Yankee idea of universal free schools maintained at the public charge. 1970 H. A. Buetow Of Singular Benefit i. 29 In 1723, the Assembly again enacted a law that furthered the founding of county free schools in Maryland. 2005 Kenilworth Weekly News (Nexis) 7 June The non-conformists..placed a high importance on education by opening the town's first free school. 2. An independently run school based on the principle that children should be allowed to develop without the restrictions imposed by examinations, authority, and other features of traditional education. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school writing schoola1475 rectory1536 spelling school1704 greycoat1706 rural school1734 Charter School1763 home school1770 Philanthropine1797 British school1819 side school1826 prep school1829 trade school1829 Progymnasium1833 finishing-school1836 field schoola1840 field school1846 prairie school1851 graded school1852 model school1854 Philanthropinum1856 stagiary school1861 grade school1869 middle school1870 language school1878 correspondence school1889 day continuation school1889 prep1891 Sunday school1901 farm school1903 weekend school1907 Charter School1912 folk high school1914 pre-kindergarten1922 Rabfak1924 cram-shop1926 free school1926 crammer1931 composite school1943 outward-bound1943 blackboard jungle1954 pathshala1956 Vo-Tech1956 St. Trinian's1958 juku1962 cadre school1966 telecentre1967 academy2000 academy school2000 1926 A. S. Neill Probl. Child xvi. 209 The Germans had a free school, rather like King Alfred School, in London. A school with co-education, much freedom, no punishments, no rewards. 1968 Time 2 Feb. 60/3 Children who emerge from such a free school tend to be behind in factual knowledge..but they catch up quickly because they are better able to interpret what they read. 1977 Undercurrents June 16/2 Down in West Cork settlers use the local protestant primary schools or none rather than send children to catholic schools. I suppose in due course free schools and play schools will be formed in country areas. 2007 Seattle Times (Nexis) 1 Apr. There used to be thousands of ‘free’ schools back in the 1960s and 1970s, according to Jerry Mintz of the Alternative Education Resource Organization. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1500 |
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