Classical school

British

noun

economic theory based on the works of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, which explains the creation of wealth and advocates free trade

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I did not do classical school to make that job.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

The New York City Ballet-affiliated training academy, which was founded by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein in 1934, is arguably the nation’s most important classical school.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2021

Four years ago, Ortner attended a Georgetown University lecture where he met Andrew Zwerneman, headmaster at Trinity School at Meadow View, a classical school for seventh-to-12th-graders in Falls Church.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2015

It was a return to the thinking of the classical school and free markets appeared to deliver on their promise.

From Economist • Jul. 20, 2012

Our eldest son, Serge, entered the university; our two other sons, Ilya and Leo, were sent by Leo Nikolaevich to L. I. Polivanov's classical school.

From Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy by Tolstoy, Sophie Andreevna

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