A school is a collection or group of people who share common characteristics of opinion or outlook of a philosophy, discipline, belief, social movement, cultural movement, or art movement. An opinion is a Person 's Ideas and thoughts towards something which it is either impossible to verify the truth of or the truth of which is thought unimportant to Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language An academic discipline or field of study is a branch of Knowledge which is taught or Researched at the college or university level Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a Proposition or Premise to be true Social movements are a type of group action. They are large informal groupings of Individuals and/or Organizations focused on specific A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time or at least with the heyday It is for this reason a school often called a school of thought or a school of belief or practice such as a school of painters. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e

Schools are often characterized by their currency, and thus classified into "new" and "old" schools. This dichotomy is often a component of paradigm shift. Paradigm shift, sometimes known as extraordinary science or revolutionary science, is the term first used by Thomas Kuhn in his influential However, it is rarely the case that there are only two schools in any given field.

Schools are often named after their founders such as the "Rinzai school" of Zen named after Linji and the Asharite school of early Muslim philosophy named after Abu l'Hasan al-Ashari. The Rinzai school ( Japanese: Rinzai-shū, Chinese: línjì zōng) is one of the three Japanese Zen sects. Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism, referred to in Chinese as Chan. Línjì Yìxuán (臨済義玄 Wade-Giles: Lin-chi I-hsüan; Japanese: Rinzai Gigen) (?–866 was the founder of the Linji school The Ash'ari theology ( Arabic الأشاعرة al-asha`irah) is a school of early Muslim speculative theology founded by the theologian Abu al-Hasan Early Islamic philosophy or classical Islamic philosophy is a period of intense philosophical development beginning in the 2nd century AH of the Islamic calendar TemplateInfobox Muslim scholars --> Abū al-Hasan Alī ibn Ismā'īl al-Ash'arī (874 &ndash 936 (ابو الحسن بن They are often also named after their places of origin, such as the Ionian school of philosophy that originated in Ionia and the Chicago school of architecture that originated in Chicago, Illinois and the Prague School of linguistics, named after a lingusitc circle found in Prague. The Ionian School, a type of Greek philosophy centred in Miletus, Ionia in the 6th and 5th centuries BC, is something of a misnomer Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Geography Physical Ionia was of small extent not exceeding 90 geographical miles in length from north to south with a breadth varying from 40 to 55 miles but to this Chicago's architecture is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as the Chicago School. The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The Prague Linguistic Circle or " Prague school " ( French Cercle linguistique de Prague, Czech Pražský lingvistický kroužek

See also

• Mindset
• History of painting