Common School

A common school was a public school in the United States or Canada in the nineteenth century.

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Famous quotes containing the words common school, common and/or school:

    “My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.”
    —George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    “At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.”
    —Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)