September 24, 2007

The purpose of school.

From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/school school means:

school1 /skul/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[skool] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1.
an institution where instruction is given, esp. to persons under college age: The children are at school.
2.
an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.
3.
a college or university.
4.
a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school.
5.
a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school.
6.
the activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school.
7.
one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school.
8.
a building housing a school.
9.
the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium.
10.
a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture.
11.
a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education: medical school.
12.
any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.
13.
the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy.
14.
Art.
a.
a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school.
b.
the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school.
15.
any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.
16.
Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier), the squad (school of the squad), or the like.
17.
Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking.
18.
schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university.
19.
Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university. –adjective
20.
of or connected with a school or schools.
21.
Obsolete. of the schoolmen. –verb (used with object)
22.
to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.
23.
Archaic. to reprimand.