free school

English

Noun

free school (plural free schools)

  1. (education) An educational institution that provides tuition-free schooling, often with greater autonomy than traditional government oversight; a public school.
    Synonym: state school
  2. (education) An alternative school focusing on student freedom, democratic self-governance, and self-directed learning, often operating outside traditional curriculum constraint.
    • 1927, Alexander Sutherland Neill, The Problem Child, page 209:
      The Germans had a free school, rather like King Alfred School, in London. A school with co-education, much freedom, no punishments, no rewards. But it contended that the school must mould the child.
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