Blackboard: Fact; The Origins Of School
Published: August 4, 2002 School (skool) n. (Middle English scole < Old English scol < Latin schola < Greek schole; leisure, discussion, philosophy) When the ancient Greeks kicked back, they were at schole, or at leisure. ''Of course, reasoned the Greek, given leisure a man will employ it in thinking and finding out about things,'' wrote the scholar Edith Hamilton in ''The Greek Way'' in 1930. ''Leisure and the pursuit of knowledge, the connection was inevitable -- to a Greek.'' According to The... Sign in to see full entry.