Wednesday, March 23, 2011

School; Or, Here's To You, Nick

'School' from Old English (skol), from Latin (schola), from Greek:

σχολη

or

Skhole: School, lecture, discussion. Also, leisure, spare time. The original notion was leisure, which evolved to an otiose discussion, and finally to a place to have such a discussion...school.

Not exactly a modern conceptualization of school, but perhaps it should be.

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