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There are two different [[noun]]s '''school''' in English, and several shades of meaning in the two [[verb]]s more or less correlated to them. (You may want to see the page on the [[school (spelling)|spelling of 'school']], which applies to all these meanings.) 
*The noun best known to all users of AWE is likely to be that of an educational institution. In the UK, this is mostly provided for learners under the age of compulsory education, currently (2013) 16.
**It is a [[paradox]] that may not be appreciated by many under the age of 16, and undergoing education in schools that the [[etymological root|root]] of '''school''' is the [[Greek]] ÏƒÏ‡Î¿Î»á½´, which ''[[OED]]'' translates primarily as 'leisure' (amongst others).
**ÏƒÏ‡Î¿Î»á½´ is also given as 'employment of leisure', and thus, among the ancient Greeks (a deeply serious people) 'learned discussion', 'disputation', 'lecture', and then a 'group to whom lectures were given'.
***'''School''' is also used to mean more generally 'a group', 'a band', 'a company'. This is now commonly used in academic and artistic circles for a group of like-minded people, such as followers of a particular philosopher or doctrine ('the school of [[Plato]]', 'the [[utilitarian]] school'; followers of a particular historian, technique or approach ('

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