The term sister school (or brother school) has several meanings:
- a definite financial commerce between two colleges or universities
- two schools that have a strong historical connection
- two schools which have social activities involving students from both schools
- two schools under the same management
- two schools built using the same floor plan/layout
- two schools in different nations that have established a collaborative international partnership.
The schools involved are usually single-sex schools, one with female students and the other with male students.
Famous quotes containing the words sister and/or school:
“One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“The first rule of education for me was discipline. Discipline is the keynote to learning. Discipline has been the great factor in my life. I discipline myself to do everything—getting up in the morning, walking, dancing, exercise. If you won’t have discipline, you won’t have a nation. We can’t have permissiveness. When someone comes in and says, “Oh, your room is so quiet,” I know I’ve been successful.”
—Rose Hoffman, U.S. public school third-grade teacher. As quoted in Working, book 8, by Studs Terkel (1973)