[quote=KabenSaal]
Pick out the relevant part, don't just Elephant throw.
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You see the #history on the end?

That takes you to the relevant section: History.

The first sentence.

>The practice of sending children to other families or to schools so that they could learn together is of very long standing, recorded in classical literature and in UK records going back over a thousand years.

A few sentences down:

>The school often considered the world's oldest boarding school, The King’s School, Canterbury, counts the development of the monastery school in around 597 AD to be the date of the school's founding.