In part because classical languages were a foundation of schooling well into the 20th century, the editors write, "one cannot understand the history of the post-classical world without constant reference to the classical cultures by which it has never ceased to define itself — in assent and dissent, in defiance and imitation, in veneration and in willed but futile forgetfulness".
Student bake sales at a school in Chicago can help to lay the foundation of new school being built in Uganda while money raised at a school dance in San Diego can fill it's library with books.
Teachers are the foundation of good schools, and good schools are the pillars of healthy and democratic communities.
One innovative program, "Leading Together," sponsored by the Center for Courage & Renewal, focuses explicitly on enhancing the quality of adult relationships within a school community, based on the premise that psychological safety, teamwork, collaboration, and mutual trust are the foundation of a school's ability to improve itself.
Students huddled under desks as the earthquake shook the foundation of their school building.
"It makes me feel connected to the foundation of the school because this was the original building," said Ms. Marinello's roommate, Sophie Starchman, 19, of Boise, Idaho.
Word that the Juilliard School had lost financing for a prized musical training program for black and Latino children has brought forth numerous offers of help, including a major pledge from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation of Los Angeles, school and foundation officials said on Friday.
Nearby, although in some disrepair, is the foundation of the school that young Nelson attended.
He built up his philosophical system on a foundation of three schools: Platonism, Peripateticism, and Stoicism.
The foundation of secondary schools for girls was in its way one of the most notable achievements of the Third Republic.
