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  2. Education in ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    There were two forms of education in ancient Greece: formal and informal. Formal education was attained through attendance to a public school or was provided by a hired tutor. Informal education was provided by an unpaid teacher and occurred in a non-public setting. Education was an essential component of a person's identity.

  3. Menelaion - Wikipedia

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    On the hill of Menelaion during the 8th century BCE the eponymous heroes, Menelaus and Helen of Troy, were worshiped, with a possible altar and enclosure. At the end of the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, a temple built with limestone was erected in place. The Menelaeion heroon has been recognized as such by Ludwig Ross. Ross excavated the area in ...

  4. History of education - Wikipedia

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    The once and future school: Three hundred and fifty years of American secondary education (1996). Parkerson Donald H., and Jo Ann Parkerson. Transitions in American education: a social history of teaching (2001) online; Reese, William J. America's Public Schools: From the Common School to No Child Left Behind (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2005 ...

  5. Category:School buildings completed in the 1800s - Wikipedia

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    This category is for school buildings which were completed in the decade 1800s. 1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s; ... School buildings completed in 1800 (2 P) School ...

  6. Central Troy Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Central Troy Historic District is an irregularly shaped, 96-acre (39 ha) area of downtown Troy, New York, United States. It has been described as "one of the most perfectly preserved 19th-century downtowns in the [country]" [ 3 ] with nearly 700 properties in a variety of architectural styles from the early 19th to mid-20th centuries.

  7. Public School No. 10 (Troy, New York) - Wikipedia

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    Public School No. 10 is a historic school building located at Troy in Rensselaer County, New York. It was built in 1898 and is an H-shaped, three-story, hard-glazed orange brick building on an elevated basement in the Georgian Revival style.

  8. Platonic Academy - Wikipedia

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    The Academy (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαδημία, romanized: Akadēmía), variously known as Plato's Academy, the Platonic Academy, and the Academic School, [citation needed] was founded at Athens by Plato circa 387 BC. Aristotle studied there for twenty years (367–347 BC) before founding his own school, the Lyceum.

  9. List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century ...

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    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.