Mankind has accumulated a huge amount of knowledge. Their transfer is always carried out from teacher to student, even if books and other information carriers act as intermediaries in this process. For many people, gaining knowledge is closely related to the concept of school.
Instruction manual
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What is a school? First of all, this is the place where a person receives knowledge. It is known that five to six thousand years ago, schools already existed in China. The term "school" itself is translated from Greek as "leisure, spending free time." There is a theory according to which the first schools were organized as a place where people who were unable to work actively could communicate. Namely, the elderly and children. In the process of communication, older people passed on their knowledge to children, over time, this method of knowledge transfer became the main one. And no matter how the names of educational institutions change, whether they are technical schools, institutes or universities, in essence they remained and remain all the same schools - a place where people receive knowledge.
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Despite the fact that initially the term “school” meant precisely an educational institution, over time it began to be perceived more widely. The school began to be called scientific and philosophical directions, closely related to the name of their founder, the essence or place where they appeared. For example, among the philosophical schools can be distinguished Pythagorean - it was developed by Pythagoras and his students. Sophistic - her prominent representatives were Protagoras, Prodicus, Hippias, Gorgias. Stoicism, which taught always to be ready for trials. Scholasticism, who studied theology. You can also note the German classical philosophy, Materialism, Anthropologism, Irrationalism, Freudianism and Neo-Freudianism, Existentialism
Philosophical schools are very diverse, each of them is based on certain postulates and has its own bright representatives.
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With science schools, everything is much simpler; there is no such dispersion of opinions and judgments as in matters of philosophy. But there are general points - in particular, the name is given to the school by the name of the person who founded it, the place of the main research work or the name of the scientific direction. For example, in physics, the scientific schools of A.F. Ioffe, L.D. Landau, P.L. Kapitsa gained worldwide fame. No less well-known schools exist in other sciences. For a young scientist, no matter in what field he works, one of the most important issues is the choice of a scientific school.
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The term "school" is sometimes used in a context that is not directly related to educational institutions. “Army is a good school”, “School of life” - these short phrases turn out to be very capacious and informative. For a young man, the army becomes one of the first serious tests. Moreover, life provides invaluable lessons, forms the character and worldview of a person.
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Whatever the school, its essence always remains unchanged - education, knowledge transfer. And this knowledge is constantly replenished, because every generation of people makes an invaluable contribution to it.
