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Pupils at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania
Pupils at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. Students were required to wear uniforms and had to surrender traditional attire upon their arrival.
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Daeseongjeon Shrine, Confucian School, Ganneung
The Daeseongjeon Shrine at the Confucian School in Gangneung, Korea. Originally constructed during the Joseon Dynasty, 14th century CE.
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Schooldays: Sumerian Satire & the Scribal Life
Schooldays (c. 2000 BCE) is a Sumerian poem describing the daily life of a young scribe in the schools of Mesopotamia. The work takes the form of a first-person narration and dialogue in relating the challenges the student faces and how he...
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Roman School
A teacher with three discipuli, relief found in Neumagen near Trier, c. 180-185 CE. Photo of casting in Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
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English Grammar School Classroom
An illustration of a 19th century CE English Grammar school classroom. The classrooom had changed little since Tudor times.
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Thanksgiving Day Play at a Native American Boarding School
Thanksgiving Day play at an unknown Native American boarding school, c. 1900.
Minnesota Historical Society.
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School Scene, Khajuraho
A class in session. The potbellied teacher is being fanned by a servant girl while he gives the lessons. His students surround him; one has a satchel across his back, another has a tablet under his arm. Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, India, 11th...
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Mahasanghika
Mahasanghika (“Great Congregation”, also given as Mahasamghika) was an early Buddhist school of thought which is thought to have been formed after the Second Buddhist Council of 383 BCE when it separated itself from another school, the Sthaviravada...
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Mahayana Buddhism
Mahayana Buddhism is the largest Buddhist sect in the world, and its beliefs and practices are what most non-adherents recognize as "Buddhism" in the modern era. It developed as a school of thought sometime after 383 BCE, possibly from the...
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Cyrenaics
The Cyrenaics were a philosophical school of thought founded c. 4th century BCE by Aristippus of Cyrene (l. c. 435-356 BCE) who taught that sensual pleasure was the highest good and only worthwhile pursuit in life. Known as the first hedonistic...