military academies

Cadet training institutions

Military academies are institutions that train students for careers as military officers, combining rigorous academic education with physical conditioning and military discipline.

Some are secondary schools preparing students for service academy admission; others are undergraduate colleges like West Point or Annapolis.

He dreamed of attending a military academy since childhood.

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Schools prioritizing broad intellectual cultivation

community colleges · public universities · private colleges · research universities · art schools

pedagogical philosophy

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Schools without tuition charges

Montessori schools · Waldorf schools · alternative schools · hippie communes · self-directed learning

relationship to state and warfare

military academiesanti-war movements

Organized opposition to armed conflict

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