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  2. History of education - Wikipedia

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    Much of this education was conducted in so-called temple schools , derived from earlier Buddhist schools. These schools were no longer religious institutions, nor were they, by 1867, predominantly located in temples. By the end of the Tokugawa period, there were more than 11,000 such schools, attended by 750,000 students.

  3. Factory model school - Wikipedia

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    "Factory model schools", "factory model education", or "industrial era schools" are ahistorical [1] [2] terms that emerged in the mid to late-20th century and are used by writers and speakers as a rhetorical device by those advocating changes to education systems.

  4. School bus - Wikipedia

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    Between 2013 and 2022, there were 976 fatal school bus accidents, resulting in 1,082 deaths and approximately 132,000 injuries. [citation needed] On average, five fatalities involve school-age children on a school bus each year; statistically, a school bus is over 70 times safer than riding to school by car. [26]

  5. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Spain had small settlements in Florida, the Southwest, and also controlled Louisiana. There is little evidence that they schooled any girls. Parish schools were administered by Jesuits or Franciscans and were limited to male students. [56] Excerpt from The New England Primer of 1690, the most popular American textbook of the 18th century

  6. School - Wikipedia

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    In ancient India, schools were in the form of Gurukuls. Gurukuls were traditional Hindu residential learning schools, typically the teacher's house or a monastery. Schools today are commonly known by the Sanskrit terms Vidyashram, Vidyalayam, Vidya Mandir, Vidya Bhavan in India. [17] In southern languages, it is known as Pallikoodam or PaadaSaalai.

  7. History of the automobile - Wikipedia

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    However, cars with front-wheel drive were made several years earlier in road cars produced by Alvis and Cord as well as in racing cars by Miller (and may have appeared as early as 1897). In the same vein, the independent suspension was initially developed by Amédée Bollée in 1873, but not put in production until the low-volume Mercedes-Benz ...

  8. Car - Wikipedia

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    Electric cars, which were invented early in the history of the car, became commercially available in the 2000s and are predicted to cost less to buy than petrol-driven cars before 2025. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The transition from fossil fuel-powered cars to electric cars features prominently in most climate change mitigation scenarios , [ 14 ] such as ...

  9. Grammar school - Wikipedia

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    Norman staircase at King's School, Canterbury (founded 597). Although the term scolae grammaticales was not widely used until the 14th century, the earliest such schools appeared from the sixth century, e.g. the King's School, Canterbury (founded 597), the King's School, Rochester (604) and St Peter's School, York (627) [1] [2] The schools were attached to cathedrals and monasteries, teaching ...