Neneh Cherry

I haven't lived in Sweden since I was a teenager. We lived in southern Sweden, about two hours north of Copenhagen, where my family's home base has been since 1970. Our parents bought a schoolhouse in preparation for self-sufficient living. They wanted to create a place to do all the things they believed in.

Swedish Musician

Mary Beard

We lived in the schoolhouse of the village school in Church Preen, in deepest Shropshire, and my mum was the schoolmistress. She taught the juniors, and one other teacher taught the infants. I went there from the age of three, no doubt as a form of childcare.

Josh Turner

I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't think it's just a hall of fame and it's not just a museum. It's a schoolhouse. It's a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we're making a living out of.

American Musician

Howard Gardner

Much of education can and should take place in schools and other formally designated community institutions. But the world beyond the schoolhouse is crucial to education, and both traditional and new media are more important than ever.

American Psychologist

Sam Houston

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

American Politician

John Glenn

Everywhere that Americans spread off the Eastern seaboard, heading west across this country, they put up the schoolhouse first, hired a schoolteacher, and put all the kids in school.

American Astronaut

Rod Parsley

We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace.

American Celebrity

Lincoln Chafee

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

The term is often used to refer to the small, traditional schools from the past.

Historical Usage

'Schoolhouse' can evoke a sense of nostalgia and simplicity, unlike modern educational complexes.

Symbol of Simplicity

In literature and movies, a 'schoolhouse' often symbolizes education's role in a community.

Cultural Depiction

 father went to a one-room schoolhouse and he again had to travel to the school to get the information from the teacher stored in the only portable memory he has which is inside his own head and take it with him because that is how information was being transported from teacher to student and then used in the

How to learn? From...

 They watch their own ceremonies over and over again. So they love looking at pictures. And then we set up our studio in the schoolhouse. And I started taking some portraits. I love the contrast of the glasses

Martin Schoeller: Kayapo...

 I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse.