### social organization | institution | school:

Academy
* Academies are educational organizations
  - establishments
  - secondary schools
  - focus on methodologies
  - improve the chances of graduating by improving attendance and credit accumulation
  - operate as schools within schools
  - promote science
  - provide education
* Most academies promote science.

### social organization | institution | school | academy:

Military academy
* Military academies are academies
  - encourage blind patriotism
  - teach that war is the continuation of politics by other means
* is an academy

Police academy
* Police academies are academies
  - films
* is an academy

Alternative school
* Most alternative schools have the same number of school days as traditional schools.
* are the third way that reformers are being assimilated back into society.

### social organization | institution | school | conservatory:

Music school
* are conservatories.
* serve primarily to train performing musicians.

### social organization | institution | school:

Elementary school
* Many elementary schools offer foreign languages as extracurricular activities at parents' expense
  - use plastic recorders to teach music to children
  - used for youngsters
* consist of students.
* is an important time in a child's life
  - when they are really forming their sense of themselves relative to others
  - which serves grades kindergarten through six
+ Recorder, History, Modern period: Flutes
  * Plastic recorders were invented in the 20th century. They are easy instruments to play simple music. Many elementary schools use plastic recorders to teach music to children. Margo Hall, 'Teaching Kids Recorder', iUniverse, 2005.

Good school
* are an important factor in where people decide to live
  - the foundation upon which any city is built
* help define the quality of life in each community.

Government school
* are government agencies paid for by tax dollars
  - nearly sacred to most people
  - public schools
* ask children to leave their parents' morality at the front door.
* produce people who look to government to fill their needs.
* teach values clarification in which students decide right and wrong.

Graduate school
* are schools.
* encourage students.

### social organization | institution | school | graduate school:

Business school
* Many business schools have centers that offer career management programs.
* Most business schools treat the study of finance and economics as an academic pursuit.
* are cheerleaders for whatever generates profits
  - graduate schools
* play a major role in providing and developing the managers of today and tomorrow.

Dental school
* are graduate schools.
* grant doctoral degrees in dentistry.
* use tests.

### social organization | institution | school | graduate school:

Law school
* Many law schools have economists who teach courses in the economics of the law
  - large, richly appointed ceremonial courtrooms
  - teach the skills of lawyering as a rather minor adjunct to legal theory
* Most law schools publish law journals.
* are graduate programs
  - profit centers for universities while medical schools are a cash drain
* is school for lawyering.
* professional school.
* serve as gate keepers to the profession.
* teach students how to read, analyze and argue about the law.
* vary in the way that they evaluate studies after undergraduate school.