The building where students go to learn is called a school.
The term school derives from the Latin schola and refers to the space where human beings attend to learn . The concept can refer to the building itself, the learning that takes place in it, the methodology used by the teacher or professor, or the group of teachers at an institution.
For example: "When I was a kid, I hated school," "See? That is the school where I attended Primary” , “Juan says that he doesn't want to go to school today because he feels bad” .
It is possible to find the term school with concrete ( physical ) or symbolic ( abstract ) meanings. Expressions such as "The storm destroyed the roof of the school" or "Next week they will paint the school" refer to the material school, while phrases such as "I am the person I am thanks to the school" or "I feel nostalgic for my days of “school” have another type of connotation.
School types
In general, schools can be divided into public schools (free access and managed by the State ) and private schools (whose administration responds to private companies or individuals that charge fees to students for the educational services provided).
However, it should be noted that, in addition to this general classification, we can carry out many others based, for example, on the type of students they have or the subjects they cover. This is how we can talk about schools for seniors. Normally these are characterized because their students are adult citizens who have educational deficiencies and who take advantage of the classes at these centers to learn to read or write as well as to advance in their studies.
Regarding the subjects they deal with, we can find what are called schools of arts and crafts. As their name indicates, these educational institutions, rather than general subjects that are addressed in formal education, are responsible for teaching their students everything related to a specific profession. More precisely, it is common for classes to focus on "manual trades" such as carpentry, masonry, blacksmithing...
Within this same classification we can establish the existence of artistic schools where what students do is learn everything related to an "artistic" discipline such as music, dance or theater.
Depending on its administration, a school can be public (run by the State) or private (managed by private individuals or companies).
The concept in art and in other areas
In the field of art , the school defines the group formed by the followers, admirers or apprentices of an individual who acts as a teacher or source of inspiration. The term is also used to group all works that belong to the same style or have the same origin: "It is one of the greatest exponents of the neoclassical school" , "I consider myself part of the Borgesian school" , " The singer trained in the school of Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones .
To all this we can add that there is a series of concepts that use the word in question as an integral part of them. In this way we can talk about what is known as a school farm, a space where the aim is to teach both what the agricultural tasks that are carried out in a place are and the process of caring for the animals that exist there.