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)

    “All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    “And so they have left us feeling tired and old.
    They never cared for school anyway.
    And they have left us with the things pinned on the bulletin board.
    And the night, the endless, muggy night that is invading our school.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)