What I meant is I’ve never seen that word used to describe junior chess in the UK. It just seems strange to me that it is used extensively in the USA, but not in the UK.
First time I ever came across the word was when I used to travel a lot in the ‘90s and picked up a copy of Chess Life.
What I would like to know is it just used in relation to chess, or everything to do with education in America?
Originally posted by peacedogEverything to do with education
What I meant is I’ve never seen that word used to describe junior chess in the UK. It just seems strange to me that it is used extensively in the USA, but not in the UK.
First time I ever came across the word was when I used to travel a lot in the ‘90s and picked up a copy of Chess Life.
What I would like to know is it just used in relation to chess, or everything to do with education in America?
To your information "Scholastic" is a greek word. Literally it is used to describe something or someone who performs a task in a thorough, organised, careful and progressive manner.
The word is not accurate to describe "school" chess but besides all that has anyone bothered to read the article? Maybe there is a point in it.🙂
Originally posted by Ulysses72American English is characteristically inaccurate, or at least far removed from the meanings grounded in etymology.
To your information "Scholastic" is a greek word. Literally it is used to describe something or someone who performs a task in a thorough, organised, careful and progressive manner.
The word is not accurate to describe "school" chess but besides all that has anyone bothered to read the article? Maybe there is a point in it.🙂
Thanks for pointing people back to the article, which highlights the impressive focus of very young chess players in a huge room: 530 games going at once.
Originally posted by peacedogwell....it is the S in SAT...something that most American high school students are only too aware of.
"Scholastic". Is that a real word, or did someone just make it up?
I guess it would be appropriate to use the word to refer to people from a school --- scholastic, school, scholar - all derive from the same root (schola)
Well, in historic terms, Scholasticism used to describe the intellectual movement of Renaissance thinkers to try and combine and reconcile Greek and Roman ethics, morality, and logic, with Christianity, spirituality, and religion. I'm not sure what-if any- relationship it has with the modern word scholastic