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The King's School is a public school in Canterbury, Kent, England.It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Eton Group.It is Britain's oldest public school and is considered to be the oldest continuously operating school in the world, as education on the Abbey and Cathedral grounds has been uninterrupted since AD 597.
The schools were closely related to the Dutch Reformed Church, and emphasized reading for religious instruction and prayer. The English closed the Dutch-language public schools; in some cases these were converted into private academies. The new English government showed little interest in public schools. [50]
This is a list of some of the endowed schools in England and Wales existing in the early part of the 19th century.It is based on the antiquarian Nicholas Carlisle's survey of "Endowed Grammar Schools" published in 1818 [1] with descriptions of 475 schools [2] but the comments are referenced also to the work of the Endowed Schools Commission half a century later.
The list does not include schools that have closed or consolidated with another school to form a new institution. The list is ordered by date of creation, and currently includes schools formed before 1870. Boston Latin School (1635), Boston, Massachusetts [2] [3] Hartford Public High School (1638), Hartford, Connecticut [4]
This list of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom contains extant schools in the United Kingdom established prior to 1800. The dates refer to the foundation or the earliest documented contemporary reference to the school. In many cases the date of the original foundation is uncertain.
Endowed schools have a long history. The oldest, having been founded in 597 as a cathedral school, is King's School, Canterbury.Over time a group of the endowed schools became known as "public schools" to differentiate from private teaching by tutors and to indicate that they were open to the public regardless of religious beliefs, locality and social status. [4]
Bronson Alcott's Temple School, opened in 1834 in the former Masonic Temple, corner Tremont St. and Temple Place, Boston.Engraving by Pendleton's Lithography. The Temple School (1834 – ca.1841), in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, was established by Amos Bronson Alcott and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody in 1834, and featured a teaching style based on conversation.
At the height of the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, the Roman educational system gradually found its final form. Formal schools were established, which served paying students (very little in the way of free public education as we know it can be found). [37] Normally, both boys and girls were educated, though not necessarily together ...