free school

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free school

noun free schools

  1. An educational institution that provides tuition-free schooling, often with greater autonomy than traditional government oversight; a public school.

    Similar: state school

  2. An alternative school focusing on student freedom, democratic self-governance, and self-directed learning, often operating outside traditional curriculum constraint. The Germans had a free school, rather like King Alfred School, in London. A school with co-education, much freedom, no punishments, no rewards. But it contended that the school must mould the child.

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@misc{free_school_2026,
  title = {free school},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/free%20school},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}