| 单词 | middle-class school |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmiddle-class school middle-class school n. now historical a fee-paying school of a kind established for the education of the children of the middle classes, as opposed to elementary schools, such as were provided by the state, and the major public schools. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > intermediate school middle school1838 middle-class school1839 junior high1909 1839 Brit. Mag. & Monthly Reg. 15 237/1 Another great object was to provide middle-class schools, in which the best and most useful education might be given in connexion with the established church. 1864 Reader 30 Jan. 134 Middle-class schools, in which education is pushed beyond the three ‘R's’. 1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 164 Euclid, Algebra, Latin, and French, in which, unlike the smattering of a middle-class school at home, a thorough grounding is given. 1944 J. L. Brereton Case for Examinations iv. 72 The demand for middle-class schools was supplemented by a demand for secondary education for working-class boys and girls. 1986 M. Bryant London Exper. Secondary Educ. v. 247 The next stage of the history of the school founded by the Middle Class Schools Corporation therefore belongs not only to the development of technical and commercial education, but to the struggle with the ‘Dead Hand’ of charity. < as lemmas |
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