单词 | hedge-school |
释义 | hedge-schooln. A school held by a hedge-side or in the open air, as was once common in Ireland; hence, a poor, mean, low-class school. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > hedge- or bush-school hedge-school1807 bush-school1852 1807 Edinb. Rev. 10 53 The lower Irish are sufficiently well taught, even in their hedge-schools. 1807 tr. C. A. G. Goede Stranger in Eng. II. 81 Bristol [has] a few charity-schools, and two hedge-schools with only one master. 1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry II. 110 The worthy pedagogue selected the first green spot on the sunny side of a quickset-thorn hedge..and there..carried on the work of instruction. From this circumstance the name of Hedge School originated. 1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. viii. 194 The hedge-school, a name of contempt for institutions in which the smatterings of knowledge could only be obtained. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 394/1 The workmen are Irish; taken from common hedge schools. Derivatives hedge-ˈschoolmaster n. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > other schoolteachers gerund-grinder1710 hedge-schoolmaster1830 grammatist1850 discipline master1863 quizmaster1878 careers master1943 1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry II. 198 What was Plato himself but a hedge schoolmaster? 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists vi. 299 Paddy Byrne, the hedge-schoolmaster, took him in hand. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1807 |
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