This high school classroom features desks arranged along the perimeter of the room, to facilitate the regular in-class discussions that are the main means of teaching English literature. The environment inside this room is closest to that of a university seminar room, where a similar treatment of the material to be learned is enacted.

For Further Reading:
Graves, Ben E. School Ways: The Planning and Design of America’s Schools. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993.
Grosvenor, Ian, and Catherine Burke. School. London: Reaktion Books, Ltd., 2008.
Hille, Thomas R. Modern Schools: A Century of Design for Education. Hoboke, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.