Have you ever wondered

how school started or

how “school” got its

name? Many people think

about the first schools as

the 1800’s one room

school houses, but

actually school started

way back in the

17 century (1600)! Why don’t you find out how the place you learn came to be?

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First of all, you might be wondering how school got its name. Well, it is not an abbreviation and definitely not a random word, the word school actually originates in Greece. The word means “leisure, philosophy, lecture place.” At first it was written and pronounced differently, then over time Latin, old English, and then old French changed it into the word school.

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Before school parents just educated their kids by themselves. However, there were lazy parents, so people found out that it would be so much easier to have small groups of adults to teach big groups of children. The idea of school was born.

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School started a long time ago, so ways were obviously different. At first teachers just taught  beliefs based on their culture, but then school focused on subjects such as writing, reading, and math. The teachers would teach in one room with kids of different ages.

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The first public school started in Boston, Massachusetts in April of 1635. This school is Latin and the oldest existing school in America!  Before, rules of school were different too.  At first boys had to go to school and for girls it was optional. After the American Revolution, the country focused more on schools and more states established schools. Unlike today, going to school was optional and many children would work on the fields instead of learning, but of course overtime the rules changed and school now is much better than a cramped one room schoolhouse.

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Even though many students may think school is a boring and useless thing, without learning and the experience of experimenting with new things cool and important inventions would not have existed.