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Manchester school

(Encyclopedia)Manchester school, group of English political economists of the 19th cent., so called because they met at Manchester. Their most outstanding leaders were Richard Cobden and John Bright. Their chief te...

Indian wars

(Encyclopedia)Indian wars, in American history, general term referring to the series of conflicts between Europeans and their descendants and the indigenous peoples of North America. After 1860 the wars continued...

Eleatic school

(Encyclopedia)Eleatic school ēlēătˈĭk [key], Greek pre-Socratic philosophical school at Elea, a Greek colony in Lucania, Italy. The group was founded in the early 5th cent. b.c. by Parmenides, its greatest thi...

graveyard school

(Encyclopedia)graveyard school, 18th-century school of English poets who wrote primarily about human mortality. Often set in a graveyard, their poems mused on the vicissitudes of life, the solitude of death and the...

library school

(Encyclopedia)library school, educational institution providing professional training for librarians (see also library). Librarians were trained by apprenticeship until the late 19th cent. The first school for trai...

opportunity school

(Encyclopedia)opportunity school: see illiteracy. ...

night school

(Encyclopedia)night school: see vocational education. ...

normal school

(Encyclopedia)normal school: see teacher training. ...

ashcan school

(Encyclopedia)ashcan school: see Eight, the.

continuation school

(Encyclopedia)continuation school: see vocational education. ...