Yes, Bill, Nar already suggested that:
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The other answer is that JRRT's style in the early part of the book was more informal and colloquial, with insouciant out-of-period references. So when he says 'school' he's talking to a reader much like him who had been to school and not worrying if that's the correct point of view for Sam's or Frodo's experience.
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