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in most British publicly funded schools, although "headmaster" is often still used colloquially, particularly in grammar schools, and is equivalent to the principal in American schools. The term "headmaster" also survives in some American and
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The schoolmaster: or, A plain and perfect way of teaching children to understand, write, and speak the Latin tongue
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The Scholemaster Or a Plaine and Perfite Way of Teachyng Children, to Understand, Write and Speake the Latin Tong
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In such schools, a schoolmaster who is not the head is formally called an "assistant schoolmaster".
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The Schoolmaster: A Commentary Upon the Aims and Methods of an Assistant master in a Public School
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Where a school has more than one schoolmaster, a man in charge of the school is the
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A range of other terms is derived from "schoolmaster" and "headmaster", including
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The term schoolmaster was once commonly two words, and the spelling has varied.
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and had only one or two such teachers, a second or third being often called an
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Reports of the Commissioners Appointed in Pursuance of Acts of Parliament
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Masked: The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam
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The archaic term for the second schoolmaster in a school in England is
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The School World: A Monthly Magazine of Educational Work and Progress
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The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School
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Symphony No. 55 (Haydn)
School Master

school
teacher
Late Middle Ages
early modern period
one-room
two-room schools
private schools
secondary
preparatory
grammar schools
the Doon School
India
Latin
Oxford
Cambridge
Bachelors of Arts
Masters of Arts
grammar school

Albrecht Dürer
headmaster
Commonwealth
housemaster
boarding school
house
Roger Ascham
Bury Grammar School

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