military school

Officer training ground

A military school is an educational institution organized along military lines, with uniforms, ranks, drills, and strict discipline.

Some are preparatory academies for future officers; others serve as boarding schools where structure is the selling point—or where parents send troubled teenagers hoping discipline will straighten them out: His parents threatened to send him to military school.

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institutional character

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Free government-run education

day school · community school · liberal arts college · state school

pedagogical approach

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Education without payment required

unschooling · Montessori school · progressive school · alternative school · open classroom

purpose and values

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Institution for musical education

seminary · international school

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