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What Is The Full Meaning Of SCHOOL

A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers.

In today’s article, we will be looking at the full meaning of the word or acronym SCHOOL.

There is not a single meaning of the word SCHOOL. There are hundreds of words that could be combined to form the word school.

They include;

1. Seven Crap Hours Of Our Lives

This definition is mostly used by individuals who believe that school isn’t the best place to obtain knowledge. They believe that the seven hours students spend in school is a waste of time.

2. The term school also represents Students Come Here Obtain Objectives Life. The S represents Student, C represents Come, H represents Here, O represents Obtain, O represents Objective, and L represents Life. Therefore, the full meaning of the term is: Student Come Here to Achieve Life’s Purpose.

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3. Sincerity Capacity Honesty Orderliness Obedience Learning

4. Scholars Come Here Over and Out for Learning

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As you can see above, there are several meanings to the acronym SCHOOL. School has its roots in the Greek skhole. That word originally had the sense of “leisure,” which evolved into a “place for discussion,” so you can see how school came to have its modern meaning. School, as in “school of thought,” can describe a group of people bonded together by shared principles. The phrase “school of hard knocks” is slang for “rough experience in life.” School also refers to a large group of fish that swim together

Every country in the world has thousands of schools. It is usually grouped into three; primary, secondary and tertiary. In most parts of the world, primary education takes up to nine years.

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Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools.

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