SCHOOL, a public place, wherein the languages, humanities, or other arts, are taught. Thus we say, a grammar school, a writing school, a school of natural philosophy, &c.—The word is formed from the Latin, schola, which, according to Du Cange, signifies discipline and correction; he adds, that it was anciently used, in the general, for all places where several persons met together, either to study, to converse, or do any other matter. Accordingly, there were scholae palatinae, being the several halls wherein the emperor's guards were placed; schola scutariorum, schola gentilium, &c. At length the term passed also to civil magistrates; and accordingly in the code, we meet with schola chartulariorum, schola agentium, &c.; and even to ecclesiastics, as schola cantorum, schola sacerdotum, &c.