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free school en · NOUN
Meanings
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An educational institution that provides tuition-free schooling, often with greater autonomy than traditional government oversight; a public school.
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An alternative school focusing on student freedom, democratic self-governance, and self-directed learning, often operating outside traditional curriculum constraint.
The Germans had a free school, rather like King Alfred School, in London. A school with co-education, much freedom, no punishments, no rewards. But it contended that the school must mould the child.
1927, Alexander Sutherland Neill, The Problem Child, page 209:
Forms
Relateds
free school movement
Synonyms
state school