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The Modern Schools, also called Ferrer Schools, were schools in the United States, established in the early Twentieth Century, that were modeled after the Escuela Moderna of Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, the Spanish educator and anarchist. They were an important part of the anarchist, free schooling, socialist, and labor movements in the U.S., intended to educate the working-classes from a secular, class-conscious perspective. The Modern Schools imparted day-time academic classes for children, and night-time continuing-education lectures for adults.
The Modern School (informally Modern/The School of Red Bricks) is a co-educational, independent day and boarding school in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1920 by Lala Raghubir Singh, a prominent Delhi-based philanthropist, in Daryaganj. He envisioned a school that would combine the "best of ancient Indian tradition with the needs of the times." The school's first principal, Mrs. Kamala Bose, a Bengali Christian, was a vigorous advocate of educational reform in India and her founding vision coupled with Lala Raghubir Singh's nationalist leanings gave birth to a school destined to be rated among the best in India: it was more Indian than the imitation public schools set up by the British for the sons of aristocracy, and more liberal than other educational institutions. The present principal is Dr. Vijay Dutta, who has occupied the post since 2014 and is the ninth principal of the school.
The school fosters internationalism and is a founding member of the Community Development and Leadership Summit (CDLS). It also facilitates numerous international workshops and exchange programs. Modern houses roughly 2,400 pupils aged 12 to 18. Admission to the school is based on the number of vacancies in classes VI to IX and XI, as most students are admitted directly from Raghubir Singh Junior Modern School, Humayun Road, New Delhi. Modern School students take the Central Board of Secondary Education (C.B.S.E.) examination in classes tenth and twelfth.
Modern has consistently been ranked as one of the best schools in Delhi and among the top five day-cum-boarding schools nationwide by media such as The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, and India Today. Its sister school, Modern School, Vasant Vihar, also ranks among Delhi's best schools in a similar ranking by Outlook. It is the first private and coeducational school established in Delhi during the British Raj. Modern has two sister schools: Modern School, Vasant Vihar, and most recently, Modern School, Kundli. Raghubir Singh Junior Modern School serves as the junior wing of Modern School, Barakhamba Road. Alumni of the school are commonly known as Modernites. Although, the total number of Modernites is relatively small, they include some of India's most prominent politicians, government officials, and business leaders. The best known alumni are former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and author Khushwant Singh.
Modern school can refer to:
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Escuela Moderna, Spanish for "modern school", the first school begun by educator and anarchist Ferrer i Guàrdia, in Spain
- Modern School (United States), a movement of American education based on the ideas of Ferrer i Guàrdia
- The Modern School Movement, a history book by Paul Avrich about the American Ferrer schools
- Freinet Modern School Movement ( Mouvement de l'École moderne), an international education movement based on the ideas of French educator Célestin Freinet
- The name of a few schools in India: Modern School (New Delhi), Modern School, Lucknow, and Modern School, Nagpur
- Secondary modern school, a type of secondary school that existed in Great Britain from 1944 until the early 1970s
Usage examples of "modern school".
Here let me remark that there is nothing ambiguous or vague about Cabell's style -- there is nothing of the rambling, incoherent maunderings of most of the modern school of writers, who seek to conceal their own ignorance by making the reader feel confused and bewildered.
Well here is a beautiful modern school for delicate children, nine out of ten of them thrive marvellously.
It was, if you know painting, a conceptual representation, which tends to dominate the modern school.
This attitude, he said, was commonplace among the great physicians of the past, but was out of favour with the modern school of pill-peddlers, who like to do their diagnosis by machine as much as possible, and prefer not to see the patient if they can possibly manage with a piece of him.
Reginald Charlton, on the other hand, was of the modern school and used as little make-up as possible, because he said it made the face into a mask, and inexpressive.
It was much like a scene from some old geography book in Harry's secondary modern school at Harden.