A school with a sign on the gate saying that the government pays the bills. State school is not about what the school looks like or what it teaches; it is about where the money comes from. Because the government that pays is a different one on each side of the Atlantic, the same two words land on different schools: in Britain a free school for children, in the US a college or university that its own state helps to fund.
可以想成校門口掛著一塊牌子，上面寫著「這裡的帳單由公家付」。state 指的就是出錢的那個政府——在英國是國家，在美國是各州。所以這個詞真正在說的不是學校長什麼樣子，也不是教什麼，而是錢從哪裡來：公家撥款，不是家長或私人掏腰包。也因為出錢的政府不一樣，同樣兩個字在大西洋兩邊指到了不同的學校。
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