by Khamaileon on February 22nd, 2008
Horace Mann,....That Jack Ass Started public schooling.
by Wabbster on September 7th, 2008
Someone brillant! Someone cool.
I know people dont like school. Thats only cuz you have to wake up in the morning. or cuz you dont like ur teachers. or cuz you dont apply urself . well fricken tough it up and deal with it.
by hurley on February 22nd, 2008
A sadist.
by Gene H on December 3rd, 2008
Way, way long ago, almost lost in the mists of time, John School started the first learning center, named 'school' in his honor.
by Galeanda on December 3rd, 2008
There were schools in ancient times, the Babylonians and the Greeks had schools. IT was a way to educate people with one instructor, especially for specialized training that didn't require one on one.
by advracer on December 3rd, 2008
All you morons who are making the bad comments.. you do of course realize that you can read all of this because you um.. went to school?
by Mikey on December 3rd, 2008
Some mofo that has no life, and is gay.
by m0ntana on October 19th, 2008
LMFAOO wat a bunch of funny cunts maan
who eva invented skool
is de dumbestfuk alive
by Anonymous on October 14th, 2008
ndiohauiasjk
by bios08 on September 30th, 2008
school is a waste of time, i can learn everything that is being taught from the internet. fuckin waste of money and life, i'm 23 years old and had been attending school since i was 7. I have been doing nothing but goin to school for 16 fuckin years!!! is this intelligent in any way??? who knows what I could have accomplished this entire time if I didnt have to go to school every day and simply waste my life away. someone needs to change some shit around here, school is only takin away my vision. there is a world full of opportunities out there, which is what we should concentrate on
by sweeti_tweety on May 24th, 2008
idk but whoever invented school is a dumb ass. WHAT THE HELL WAS HE/SHE THINKING!?!?!
by niki on May 17th, 2008
a stupid bitch who nothin else better to do. hell i have hundreds of things to do then go to school.
by liana.aw on March 18th, 2008
prob jebus
by Bananarama on February 22nd, 2008
the same person wh invented wasting time.
by singwell-is off researching a lot on February 22nd, 2008
According to Wikipedia, schools have been around since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks, but I suspect they have been around long before that. The Sumerians (3rd Millennium BC) had scribal schools, to train boys in the written language.
"Ur-Nammu (r. 2113-2095 BC) founded the 3rd Dynasty of Ur. In addition to being a successful military leader, he was also a social reformer and the originator of a law code that antedates that of the Babylonian king Hammurabi by about three centuries (see Hammurabi, Code of). Ur-Nammu’s son Shulgi (r. 2095-2047 BC) was a successful soldier, a skillful diplomat, and a patron of literature. During his reign the schools and academies of the kingdom flourished."
http://history-world.org/sumeria.htm
The Ancient Egyptians were off the mark around the same time:
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002606/AncientEgypt.html
Even the Hebrews seem to have had some sort of school system by 1200 BC
A. Demsky in W.W. Hallo ed., THE CONTEXT OF
SCRIPTURE, Volume One (Leiden, 1997) as follows: p. 363: "The Izbet Sartah
ostracon (ca. 1200) is worth special attention for it is the oldest
reduced twenty-two letter alphabet inscribed in the Proto-Canaanite
script. This beginner's exercise tablet, written from left to right, is
also peculiar in that some of the letters are transposed: the HETH
precedes the ZAYIN and the PE comes before the `AIN. "
http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/library/ane/digest/1998/v1998.n277
Of course, these schools were elitist, with pupils drawn from the upper classes, and males heavily outweighing the numbers of females who were literate.
Universal literacy came much later.
by TVFan on February 22nd, 2008
some stupid idiot
by PSP123 on February 8th, 2008
my fat grandmother
by joeteh on November 19th, 2007
a hor!!!!!!!!!!
by PDIDDY on October 15th, 2007
IM GONNA KILL THE INVENTOR OF SCHOOL TAKE A TIME PORTAL AND STAB HIS EYES OUT THEN COOK THEM AND PUT THEM BACK IN AND STAB THEM OUT AGAIN AND EAT THEM
by Sheepingly needs no handy men only hugs on May 29th, 2007
no one really invented it technically. Everyone throughout time have had some sort of organized education whether it was through homeschooling or what not.
Way back in the day when people were educated by a hired educator or one of the caretakers.
by Mrs.mezzo is a Wagnerian soprano on March 30th, 2007
Well he didn't invent "school" but this chappy is the father of public education as we now know it:
Horace Mann
Born May 4, 1796, in Franklin, Massachusetts, he was the father of American education, Horace Mann. He abandoned his rigid Calvinist upbringing for Unitarianism at age 23 and contrived to get his own education before becoming an educator himself. He created the first Board of Education in Massachusetts and recommended a comprehensive public school system, along secular lines, as a great cultural and national equalizer. Many thought this approach anti-Christian, but Mann wisely kept divisive doctrines outside and sound ethics inside the classroom.
by arbiter on February 21st, 2008
my momas momas momas momas momas momas momas momas momas momas
by arbiter on February 21st, 2008
really no one masde school its the system of education someone set up every country had a system of education no one made school
by PSP123 on February 8th, 2008
my magic stick
what what
by Anonymous on March 30th, 2007
i want to kill the people who invented school!!!!!!!!!!!!1
by arbiter on February 21st, 2008
dis that
by vignesh on October 29th, 2007
God
by PSP123 on February 8th, 2008
your mom
by advracer on December 3rd, 2008
fish.. as in a "school of fish"... oh nevermind.. you would probably have to have gone to school to learn that...
by Alatea on May 4th, 2006
Ancient Persia, India and the Greeks had the first schools. The first book for a primary school was published in Iran in 1382.
(bba Silvestri opened first school for the deaf in Italy in Rome 1784. Samuel Heinicke establishes first oral school for the deaf in the world in Germany in 1755. Charles Michel Abbe del' Epee establishes first free school for the deaf in the world, Paris, France.)
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2,400BC Babylonian baked clay tablets with arithmetic . There is a large body of mathematical tablets dating back to the old Babylonian period (1800 to 1500BC).
Pythagoras, who died about 500BC, founded the "ythagorean School of thinkers."They created mathematical ways of representing and analysing musical harmony, and theories explaining sight mechanically: thinking of light as an emission of particles travelling in straight lines between the eye and the object seen. Mathematics, experiment, theory, aesthetics and religious speculation were all part of the Pythagorean imagination. They established the relationship of harmonious sound between families of notes produced by striking metal bars of different lengths, and the numbers that relate the lengths to the notes.
from the net
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There is some controversy regarding what is the world's oldest university between Takshashila, Nalanda and Al-Azhar University depending on the extent of this definition.
Students at Takshashila University, founded in Taxila, Pakistan (a part of ancient India at the time) from around the 7th century BC, were given academic titles after graduating from one of its many courses. Nalanda University, founded in Bihar, India from around the 5th century BC, also gave academic titles to its graduates, while also offering post-graduate courses. Al-Azhar University, founded in Cairo, Egypt in the 9th century, offered a variety of post-graduate degrees, and is usually regarded as the first full-fledged university.
The ancient cities of Takshashila, Nalanda, Vikramasila, and Kanchipura in ancient India were greatly reputed centres of learning in the east, with students from all over Asia. In particular, Nalanda was a famous center of Buddhist scholarship, and as such it attracted thousands of Buddhist scholars from China, East Asia, Central Asia and South-East Asia, while also attracting many students from Persia and the Middle East.
The awarding of academic titles was not a custom of other educational institutions at the time but ancient institutions of higher learning also existed in China (Yuelu Academy), Greece (the Academy), and Persia (Academy of Gundishapur)
The Academy, founded in 387 BC by the Greek philosopher Plato in the grove of Academos near Athens, taught its students philosophy, mathematics, and gymnastics, and is sometimes considered to resemble a university. Other Greek cities with notable educational institutions include Kos (the home of Hippocrates), which had a medical school, and Rhodes, which had philosophical schools. Another famous classical institution was the Museum and Library of Alexandria.
Institutions bearing a resemblance to the modern university also existed in Persia and the Islamic world prior to Al-Azhar University, most notably the Academy of Gundishapur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University
by GeorgeGee on October 14th, 2009
The Ancient Greeks had public schools and academies. Socrates was a teacher as well as a philosopher.
http://www.radicalacademy.com/philsocrates.htm
by Brian on February 8th, 2009
Some !@#$%^ idiot who didn't hav to go to it! :p(
JK. :p
by niki on May 17th, 2008
a stupid bitch who had nothin else to do. hell i have hundreds of differnt things to do than go to school.
by dead leaves raked in a pile on December 3rd, 2008
Way back in antiquity. Greeks and romans had schools, Chinese thousands of years before that.
And I'm sure the finer points of stone chipping were expounded around the camp fire before that.
by Night Time on February 22nd, 2008
The first school was a kinder garden (German for children's garden) by Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel.
by Anonymous on May 8th, 2008
a b****
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