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:

    “I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once more only the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,—those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”
    —Advertisement. Poster in a school near Irving Place, New York City (1983)