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common school

noun as in public elementary school

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Example Sentences

No sooner did common schools emerge than violence engulfed them.

The laws of the Republic of Liberia provide for a common school in every town.

Our present common-school system is an off-spring of popular opinion, as that opinion was created and led to action by a few men.

What is popularly known as learning is to be acquired in the common school, high school, academy and college, as heretofore.

No advantages in the way of a common school education were within reach of the youth situated as was Kit Carson.

But we need not rest upon the family fact or the old common school system.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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