academy

The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures

the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.; a music academy; a language academy

the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

In the academy and outside of it, the privileging of technical expertise above other forms of knowledge is a political gesture, and one that has proved highly effective in neutralizing critique of established power relations.