Epicurus (, " ally, comrade "; 341 BC – 270 BC ) was an ancient Greek philosopher as well as the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism.

Epicurus ' school, which was based in the garden of his house and thus called " The Garden ", had a small but devoted following in his lifetime.

Epicurus emphasized friendship as an important ingredient of happiness, and the school resembled in many ways a community of friends living together.

After the death of Epicurus, his school was headed by Hermarchus ; later many Epicurean societies flourished in the Late Hellenistic era and during the Roman era ( such as those in Antiochia, Alexandria, Rhodes and Ercolano ).

After the death of Epicurus, his school was headed by Hermarchus ; later many Epicurean societies flourished in the Late Hellenistic era and during the Roman era ( such as those in Antiochia, Alexandria, Rhodes, and Ercolano ).

Epicurus emphasized friendship as an important ingredient of happiness, and the school seems to have been a moderately ascetic community which rejected the political limelight of Athenian philosophy.

* 307 Epicurus founds his philosophic school in Athens.

After the time of the younger Aristippus, the school broke up into different factions, represented by Anniceris, Hegesias, and Theodorus, who all developed rival interpretations of Cyrenaic doctrines, many of which were responses to the new system of hedonistic philosophy laid down by Epicurus.

* The Garden ( a school of philosophy founded by Epicurus c. 306 BCE )

Together with his brother Timocrates of Lampsacus he joined the school Epicurus had set up in their home town.

His friendship with Epicurus started after the latter's escape from Mytilene in 307 or 306 BC when he opened a philosophical school at Lampsacus associating himself with other citizens of the town, like Pythocles, Colotes, and Idomeneus.

With these fellow citizens he moved to Athens, where they founded a school of philosophy with Epicurus as head, or hegemon, while Polyaenus, Hermarchus and Metrodorus were kathegemones.

He was the disciple and successor of Epicurus as head of the school.

Hermarchus was a son of Agemarchus, a poor man of Mytilene ( in insular Greece ), and was at first brought up as a rhetorician, but afterwards became a faithful disciple of Epicurus, who left to him his garden, and appointed him his successor as the head of his school, about 270 BC.

pioneers who looked like off-duty gardeners even at parent-teacher conferences and who never called the school principal `` Mister ''.

In a sense almost all high school and college courses could be considered as vocational to the extent that later in life the student in his vocation ( which may be a profession ) will be called upon to use some of the skills developed and the competence obtained.

The following morning Mr. Morikawa called for me, and we went to visit schools -- kindergarten, middle-school, elementary school, and high school -- Mr. Yoshimoto's school.

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

In 1966, Morita wrote a book called Gakureki Muyō Ron ( 学歴無用論, Never Mind School Records ), where he stresses that school records are not important to success or one's business skills.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

A service called “ Vespers ,” presented occasionally throughout the school year, combines music, speech, and drama.

Early struggles were against school segregation, but the Mexican-American cause, or " La Causa " as it was called, soon came under the banner of the United Farm Workers and César Chávez.

The 2000 film Bring It On, about a San Diego high school cheerleading squad called " The Toros ", starred real-life former cheerleader Kirsten Dunst.

( Colloquially, the school name is called " big name " ( 大名 ), whereas the " milk name " is known as the " small name " ( 小名 ).

A school might have one space called a campus, one called a field, and another called a yard.

A group of dolphins is called a " school " or a " pod ".

Higher education, also called tertiary, third stage, or post secondary education, is the non-compulsory educational level that follows the completion of a school providing a secondary education, such as a high school or secondary school.

In the U. S. and Canada, training for board certification in internal medicine, pediatrics, or gynecology after medical school is called residency.

Modern school textbooks often define separate figures called lines ( infinite ), rays ( semi-infinite ), and line segments ( of finite length ).

On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, a boy eight years old ( the son of Jenner's gardener ), with pus scraped from the cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom, whose hide now hangs on the wall of the St George's medical school library ( now in Tooting ).

This school was later called the Royal Free Hospital of Medicine, which later became part of what is now the medical school of University College London.

A school voucher, also called an education voucher, is a certificate issued by the government, which parents can apply toward tuition at a private school ( or, by extension, to reimburse home schooling expenses ), rather than at the state school to which their child is assigned.

There he founded The Garden, a school named for the garden he owned that served as the school's meeting place, about halfway between the locations of two other schools of philosophy, the Stoa and the Academy.

In 1951, when Giuliani was seven, his family moved from Brooklyn to Garden City South, where he attended the local Catholic school, St. Anne's.

* Garden City Collegiate, a high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba

The school ( as in the students, faculty and staff ) is also actively building a new Greenhouse on the school farm, ( Marlboro Victory Garden ) which was designed by a recent graduate.

There are six state aided primary schools in Golders Green ; these include: Brookland infant & junior, Garden suburb infant & junior, Menorah primary school and Wessex Gardens.

* Hilton D. Bell Intermediate School, a large intermediate school in the Garden Grove Unified School District in Garden Grove, California

At this site was a post office and a school house that served children in Buena, Garden Canyon and outreaches of the local area.

The old grade school was located north of town and was originally called the Prairie Garden District # 32.

Garden City has four elementary schools in operation ; a closed elementary school, one middle school, a high school, a special education high school, and is also the location of Burger School, which is for autistic children.

The School District obtained between South 32nd Street and Little East Neck Road and between Garden City Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue by condemnation for the high school and its athletic fields.

Whitford station closed when the railway stopped running around 1920, and unlike Garden Home, which became the name of a Portland suburb, Whitford exists today primarily as the name of a Beaverton middle school.

Mule Days has been celebrated on the first Saturday in June for over 50 years, featuring a Kiddie Parade, Main Parade, entertainment and games for kids at the park, three on three basketball in front of the high school, food and craft fair at the park, Community BBQ pork luncheon, Beer Garden, and Mule Days Dance.

Nüshu Garden school, July 2005Yang Huanyi ( traditional Chinese: 陽煥宜 ; simplified Chinese: 阳焕宜 ), an inhabitant of Jiangyong county, Hunan province and the last person proficient in this writing system, died on September 20, 2004, age 98.

He then established his own private drawing school at Covent Garden, but this was soon closed.

Manuel Azaña, who studied in the monastery's Augustinian-run school, mentions them in his Memorias ( Memoirs ) and his play El jardín de los frailes ( The Garden of the Friars ).

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a founding partner of the Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment ( BASE ), a small public high school dedicated to science, environmental studies, and urban ecology that was launched in 2003.

Knighted in 1916, Sir Alfred displayed extensive philanthropic tendencies throughout his later years, donating towards: a convalescent home on the Isle of Dogs for the benefit of children ; residences for soldiers ' widows in Hampstead Garden Suburb ( the Barnett Homestead, Erskine Hill ); a school, Bearwood College, in Berkshire ; a home and hospital for children in Broadstairs, Kent ; a scholarship at University College London ; a gallery at Oundle School in Northamptonshire ; and medical research at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, among other noble causes.

Winchester School Community Garden is Green Thumbs Growing Kids ’ flagship school food garden.