Modern School

Modern School can refer to:

  • The name of a few schools in India: Modern School (New Delhi), Modern School, Lucknow, and Modern School, Nagpur
  • Secondary modern school, a type of secondary school that existed in Great Britain from 1944 until the early 1970s
  • Modern School Movement (Mouvement de l'École moderne), an international education movement started in France and based on the ideas of educator Célestin Freinet
  • Escuela Moderna, Spanish for "modern school", the first school begun by educator and anarchist Ferrer i Guàrdia, in Spain
  • Modern School (United States), a movement of American education based on the ideas of Ferrer i Guàrdia
  • The Modern School, a U.S.-based publication related to the Ferrer i Guàrdia Modern School movement

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or school:

    “The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.”
    —Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)

    “[How] the young . . . can grow from the primitive to the civilized, from emotional anarchy to the disciplined freedom of maturity without losing the joy of spontaneity and the peace of self-honesty is a problem of education that no school and no culture have ever solved.”
    —Leontine Young (20th century)