Modern School can refer to:
- 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
- Modern School Movement (Mouvement de l'École moderne), an international education movement started in France and based on the ideas of educator Célestin Freinet
- 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, a U.S.-based publication related to the Ferrer i Guàrdia Modern School movement
Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or school:
“In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.”
—Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Guardian (London, February 20, 1979)
“While most of today’s jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline, organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. These are precisely the skills that many of the young people who are staying in school today, as opposed to two decades ago, lack.”
—James P. Comer (20th century)