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Erasmus Smith, attributed to the circle of John Michael Wright
Erasmus Smith (1611–1691) was an English merchant and a landowner with possessions in England and Ireland. Having acquired significant wealth through trade and land transactions, he became a philanthropist in the sphere of education, treading a path between idealism and self-interest during a period of political and religious turbulence. His true motivations remain unclear.
Smith's family owned manors in Leicestershire and held Protestant beliefs. He became a merchant, supplying provisions to the armies of the Puritan Oliver Cromwell – during Cromwell's suppression of rebellion in Ireland — and an alderman of the City of London . His financial and landowning status was greatly enhanced by benefiting from his father's subscription to the Adventurers' Act from which he gained extensive landholdings in Ireland as a reward, and from his own speculative practice of buying additional subscriptions from other investors. (Full article... )
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Image 2 György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from
Vocational school )
Image 5 Istanbul University (1453) was founded by sultan
Mehmed II as a
Darülfünun . On 1 August 1933, as part of
Atatürk's reforms , it was reorganized and became the Republic's first modern university. (from
History of education )
Image 6 Dansk Skolemuseum (from
History of education )
Image 7 Nalanda - teaching platform (from
History of education )
Image 8 King's College London in 1831, as engraved by J. C. Carter. It is one of the founding institutions of
University of London , established in 1836. (from
History of education )
Image 9 A classroom block with schoolbag racks in
Western Sydney , Australia (from
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Image 10 Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from
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Image 12 A
madrasah in the Gambia (from
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Image 15 Established in 1224 by
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor ,
University of Naples Federico II in Italy is the world's oldest state-funded university in continuous operation. (from
History of education )
Image 16 Mosaic from
Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting
Plato 's
Academy (from
History of education )
Image 17 To curtail violence, some schools have added
CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with
gang activity or violence. (from
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Image 18 Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills,
c. 1920 (from
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Image 19 Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from
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Image 20 Ambachtschool (from
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Image 21 A staged example of an online classroom using
Jitsi . The teacher is sharing their screen. (from
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Image 22 First
primary school in
Nigeria , built in 1845 (from
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Image 23 A high school in
Milan in the 1920s (from
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Image 24 A school entrance building in Australia (from
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Image 28 Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from
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Image 29 World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008
Human Development Report )
0.950 and over
0.900–0.949
0.850–0.899
0.800–0.849
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under 0.350
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Image 31 King's College London , established by a
Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the
University of London . (from
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Image 33 Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from
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Image 34 Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from
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Image 35 Plato 's academy,
mosaic from
Pompeii (from
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Image 36 Educational institution of this type in
Canton ,
Michigan , United States (from
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Image 37 Scotch College, Melbourne , an independent secondary school in
Australia (from
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Image 39 Vocational school in
Lappajärvi , Finland (from
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Image 41 The
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from
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Image 42 Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by
Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky . 1895. (from
History of education )
Image 43 A
high school building in
Argos, Greece (from
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Image 44 One-room school in 1935,
Alabama (from
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Image 46 Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a
papyrus scroll , from
Herculaneum , 1st century AD (from
History of education )
Image 47 Based around
Notre-Dame de Paris , the
Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from
Music school )
Image 49 St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from
History of education )
Image 50 Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by
Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky . Russia, 1895. (from
School )
Image 51 West Park Secondary School in Toronto is an example. It was built in 1968 for students with slow learning or special needs. (from
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Image 53 A school building in
Kannur , India (from
School )
Image 54 Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from
History of education )
Image 55 The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of
Nuuk , the capital city of
Greenland (from
College )
Image 59 Loyola School, Chennai , India – run by the
Catholic Diocese of Madras . Christian missionaries played a pivotal role in establishing modern schools in India. (from
School )
Image 61 Curtis Institute of Music in
Philadelphia , one of the world's most elite conservatories (from
Music school )
Image 64 Parliament Square,
Trinity College Dublin in
Ireland (from
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Image 66 Albert Bettannier 's 1887 painting
La Tache noire depicts a child being taught about the "lost" province of
Alsace-Lorraine in the aftermath of the
Franco-Prussian War – an example of how European schools were often used in order to inoculate
Nationalism in their pupils. (from
School )
Image 67 A staged example of an online classroom using
Jitsi . The teacher is sharing their screen. (from
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Image 68 Literacy rates in Italy in 1861, shortly after the
proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy . Italy lacks
Lazio and the
Triveneto , which were subsequently annexed. (from
History of education )
Image 70 RAJUK Uttara Model College , located in the northern suburb of
Uttara in the capital
Dhaka (from
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