Ms Atwell's school in the rural town of Edgecomb, Maine, is no ordinary place of learning.
Place of learning: the Museum of Scotland at Chambers St, Edinburgh.
School was more than a place of learning for the asylum seekers on the island, the teachers said.
Under his leadership, the Republican Party commits itself to bold reforms in education -- to make every school a place of learning and achievement for every child.
Hunching his broad shoulders, he told me that, when he was a student at Columbia University, in the eighties, he considered the A.M.N.H. an esteemed place of learning.
Inside, the main foyer's cafe ambience and the fountains bubbling away in its centre camouflage the fact that this is a place of learning.
A university (Collegium Albertinum) was founded in the city in 1544 by Albert I, duke of Prussia, as a "purely Lutheran" place of learning.
The school of magic is now under the stewardship of Professor Snape Alan Rickmann), and is run more like a prison than a place of learning.
In designing a new building for the Solomon Schechter School of Westchester, Neville Epstein of Perkins Eastman Architects of Manhattan, its architect, wanted to evoke the feeling of a "sanctuary, combined with a place of learning".
Poetry can express the complex in clear ways, and the zoo - as a place of locked doors, as a haven for the endangered, as a place of learning - zoos need all the expression they can get.
Roger Kline, the UCU head of equality and employment rights, said: "The attitude of the senior officers at Canterbury Christ Church University is inappropriate in a modern place of learning.
