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Will has also been working as a personal Mentor to business leaders and
6th form students during their ‘A’Levels and on through college, usually
working closely with the student, parents and college together.
He has recently opened a Sea School in Dartmouth, Devon, UK, and is also
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A Book of Quotations
The QBE Book of
Quotations for
Teachers, Parents,
Principals and
Students
Let's
Expect
More From Our Schools
With Commentaries by
Will Sutherland, QBE Schools
and Steve McCrea
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Introduction
(A Word to the Reader)
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in
a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their
skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr., 28 August 1963
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(origin unknown, often quoted in teachers' manuals)
“We are looking for a guide on the side, not a sage on the
stage.”
(unclear who said it frst)
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Action
In order that Evil shall triumph, it is sufcient that Good Men
do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Authentic Work
The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write
programs, and to study great programs that other people
have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the
Computer Science Center and fshed out listings of their
operating system.
Bill Gates
B
Be Yourself
Courage doesn't always road. Sometimes courage is the quiet
voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again
tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who
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mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss
Belief systems
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe
that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
Boredom
School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human
existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and
unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common
sense and common decency.” Henry Louis Mencken
School sucks.
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A Tale about Bullying
In my frst term at Aiglon, I shared a room with another boy,
on the top foor of Clairmont. There was a very nervous boy
who occupied a single room on the same foor. Me and my
roommate had been teasing him with a silly made-up story
about there being the ghost of a boy who had died of an
asthmatic attack in that very room, and that his ghost
resided in a water tank in the room and came out to haunt
the room periodically. I concocted a story about how the
dead boy had had a club foot, and that when his ghost
appeared "You can hear him wheezing and
clumping/scraping his club foot down the hallway at night.”
My roommate and I then conspired so that one night, one of
us made the clumping/scraping noises down the hallway at
about 2 a.m., and the other attempted to enter the boy's
room with a bed sheet over his head, wheezing and
moaning. It was very funny and we (me and my roommate)
were laughing hugely about it afterwards.
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natural victim). But the thing is, CR's approach - the school's
approach - was to help the individual student to nurture the
positive and push out the negative aspects in their own
behaviours.
Iain Barraclough, alumnus of Aiglon College
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Traditional Approaches to Bullying
It's getting to the students who are being bullied and those
who are doing the bullying. If you can eliminate either group
- if those who are being bullied can stand up for themselves,
or the teasing stops - the oppression will end.
~ Sasha Neumann
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Curiosity
"See that bird? What kind of a bird is that?" And I said, "I
haven't the slightest idea." He said, "It's a brown throated
thrush. In Italian it is a -------; in Portuguese it is called a
------; in Japanese, they say -------. Now, you know in
many languages the name of that bird and yet you know
absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You only know
about humans in diferent places and what they call the bird.
Now, let's look at the bird."
Richard Feynman
Curriculum
Given the widening array of possibilities, there’s no reason
that every child must master the sciences, algebra, geometry,
biology, or any of the rest of the standard high school
curriculum that has barely changed in half a century.”
Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor (Clinton Administration)
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Deschooling
Everywhere the hidden curriculum of schooling initiates the
citizen to the myth that bureaucracies guided by scientifc
knowledge are efcient and benevolent. Everywhere this
same curriculum instills in the pupil the myth that increased
production will provide a better life. And everywhere it
develops the habit of self-defeating consumption of services
and alienating production, the tolerance for institutional
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dependence, and the recognition of institutional rankings.
The hidden curriculum of school does all this in spite of
contrary eforts undertaken by teachers and no matter what
ideology prevails.
ecobooks.com/books/deschooling.htm
Complete text:
preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Deschooling/intro.html
Difcult Work
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined
this government: "I have nothing to ofer but blood, toil,
tears and sweat." … We have before us an ordeal of the
most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long
months of struggle and of sufering.
Winston Churchill, First Speech as Prime Minister May 13,
1940 to House of Commons.
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people have a positive attitude about solving any problem
that arises. If we don't have this attitude, we should not be
educating our youth.
Littky, p. 175 in Doc, memo to staf.
Digital Education
[Schools] can embrace digital solutions—such as online
courses and independent studies—to replace face-to-face
courses cut during difcult budget times. In addition,
tutoring companies will perfect their ability to deliver help to
struggling kids digitally.
To help teachers cope with these changes, universities will
need to redesign teacher preparation programs
to emphasize how to diferentiate instruction for
students. State curriculum committees must redesign
standards documents to make them more fexible, and
policymakers must redesign teacher evaluation programs to
reward innovative educators who create individualized
learning environments for students.
...[T]he work of the classroom teacher will change
drastically. Instead of leading groups through standalone
lessons, teachers will increasingly match individuals with
learning solutions aligned with their interests and
abilities. Content will be packaged and delivered
asynchronously, allowing students to work independently
and revisit lessons as needed. Face-to-face experiences
will be combined with digital interactions; geographic
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boundaries between teachers and students—as well as
between learners—will become increasingly irrelevant.
Ferriter, William M. “Preparing to Teach Digitally,”
Dropouts
See School Leavers
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Edu-Preneuring
The blog called edReformer.com has one big goal: catalyze
talent and investment to produce and scale learning
innovation.
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We’re more a Views site than a News site, although it will
increasingly be a great source of what’s happening in the
edu-innovation space. EdBase will soon be the best resource
for information about edupreneurs and folks supporting their
success.
Exhibitions
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed
book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open
their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask
the teacher or another student for help.
William Glasser
Extra Efort
What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean
would be less because of that missing drop. -Mother Theresa
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Future
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in
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what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for
what no one knows yet.
~ Margaret Mead
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Goals
We should develop students who know how to:
identify problems,
use their intelligences to solve problems and create
products,
demonstrate their understanding in a variety of ways, and
work with others.
Educators should:
personalize education and work to individualize instruction;
enable students to develop and use their areas of strength;
view students' parents as partners and educate them, too;
ofer an environment that supports faculty growth; and
demonstrate that students are prepared for the future.
Becoming a Multiple Intelligences School
Thomas Hoerr
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High Tech High
Too much of the traditional high school curriculum today is
made up of fragmented and decontextualized knowledge
that doesn't have any meaning for many students. Project-
based learning works because it gives students a reason to
embrace the academic curriculum; they recognize that they
have to know math or history or physics to compete their
projects.
Larry Rosenstock, founder
High Tech High, San Diego, Calif.
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Individualized Learning
State curriculum committees must redesign standards
documents to make them more fexible, and policymakers
must redesign teacher evaluation programs to reward
innovative educators who create individualized learning
environments for students.
Ferriter, William M. “Preparing to Teach Digitally”
Innovations
Educational innovators still assume that educational
institutions function like funnels for the programs they
package. Education is assumed to be the result of an
institutional process managed by the educator. As long as
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the relations continue to be those between a supplier and a
consumer, educational research will remain a circular
process. It will amass scientifc evidence in support of the
need for more educational packages and for their more
deadly accurate delivery to the individual customer, just as a
certain brand of social science can prove the need for the
delivery of more military treatment.
Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, p. 69
Internships
On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking
for the cartoon guy.
Gary Larson
J
Journals and Diaries
When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping
notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape
drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote
about my day and what happened to me, but I described
things.
John Irving
Knowledge
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to
school.
William Glasser
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L
Large Schools
The troubles with comprehensive high schools are not
confned to the inner cities. More than fve thousand
students drop out of American high schools every school
day, in middle-class suburbs, rural towns and everywhere in
between.
It may take 10,000 new schools to address the problem.
And it may take $10 billion in public and private funding to
fx the high schools we have and to create the new ones we
need....New schools are particularly important for
underserved students, increasing their educational options,
reducing enrollments in overcrowded schools, and leveraging
change in other existing schools through competition for
students.
Tom vander Ark
Life Lessons
The diference between school and life? In school, you're
taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a
test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett
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Lifelong Learning
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly
of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling
implies custodial care for persons who are declared
undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has
been built to serve them.
Ivan Illich
M
Memorization
Give 21st Century Students Time to Understand
We can all agree that it is important for students to graduate
from high school. However, what happens when “graduating”
from high school does not necessarily represent an
understanding of the basic skills needed in college and the
workplace? According to the Sun-Sentinel, more than half of
the students entering public colleges and universities in
Florida need remedial classes in math, reading, and writing
prior to starting their college classes. The problem is NOT
the amount of money we are putting into our public schools;
rather, the structure and curriculum of public education
needs reform. Memorizing information for the FCAT or
College Placement Test is not going to equip students with
the skills needed for the 21st century.
Students need to learn to analyze, understand, and explain
rather than memorize, recite, and regurgitate facts and
information. A student cannot be expected to master division
if he or she does not know what dividing numbers truly
means. Subjects—particularly reading and math—need to be
taught on a student’s individual timeframe. Learning should
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be measured against each student’s past markers of
progress. We must enable students to learn at varying rates
so they come to understand and analyze information in a
way that is useful and accessible both to them personally and
for the 21st century.
We must change our expectations about time and make
conceptual understanding (not wrote repetition) our frst
priority.
A. Fischler
Mission of Schools
If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge
and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done
its work.
Richard Livingstone
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Nerds
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Bill Gates
P
Parents
I have been taking my sons and daughter to work with me for
well over 10 years. The greatest parts of the day have been
having your children interact with coworkers, for them to see
you in a diferent environment, and to understand how kind
and patient so many people are in a working environment. It
helps them form opinions on the type of work they are
interested in. With one son entering college, I can see that
he is leaning towards the types of interactions he has had
over the years that most stimulated him (both social and
technological). I think this is an experience that every
Father, Mother, Son, and Daughter should experience.
Alan Klayman
Founder of the MyIncomeStrategy.com® program
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are fnding that the amount of quality time they have to
spend with their children is less and less. ‘Take Our
Daughters and Sons to Work Day’ is a vital initiative because
it promotes parent-child bonding on yet another level. By
afording our children the opportunity to experience our
careers, we are providing them with an immediate
educational experience, as well as the possibility of fostering
long-term goals and motivation. It was while experiencing
my capable, educated mother's struggle as a secretary to
gain respect in a male-dominated corporate environment
that I realized I wanted to learn about the psychology behind
the choices men and women make in terms of their courses
of study after high school. It was after a ‘Take Your Daughter
to Work Day’ that I realized I had to become a school
psychologist.
Nadine O'Reilly, M.A., certifed school psychologist
Passion
When the child fnds his passion, we teach to that passion.
We can fnd internships for high school students: Kids say, “I
love this internship!”
Dennis Littky
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Persistence
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or
small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of
honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to
the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 1941, Harrow School
Positive Thinking
Whatsoever things are true,
Whatsoever things are honest,
Whatsoever things are just,
Whatsoever things are pure,
Whatsoever things are lovely,
Whatsoever things are of good report,
Think on these things.
Philippians 4:8
Q
The importance of Quotations
See the last quote of this book
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Reading
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just
something that teachers make you do in school.
Beverly Cleary
Reform
Any attempt to reform the university without attending to the
system of which it is an integral part is like trying to do
urban renewal in New York City from the twelfth story up.
Ivan Illich
Relationships
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or
conversation with the teacher.
William Glasser
Relevance
I was a small boy and my father used to read to me from an
encyclopedia. One day we read about dinosaurs and the
book said that the dinosaur was twenty-fve feet high with a
head six feet across. "Let's see what that means. That would
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mean that if he stood in our front yard, he wold be high
enough to put his head through the third-story window but
not quite because his head would be a little bit too wide."
Richard Feynman
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School
Going to school does not make a person educated, any more
than going to a garage makes a person a car.
Anonymous
Richard Branson
Bill Gates
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Small Schools
he frst R is Rigor – making sure all students are given a
challenging curriculum that prepares them for college or
work. The second R is Relevance – making sure kids have
courses and projects that clearly relate to their lives and their
goals. The third R is Relationships – making sure kids have
a number of adults who know them, look out for them, and
push them to achieve. The three Rs are almost always easier
to promote in smaller schools. ... Students in smaller
schools are more motivated, have higher attendance rates,
feel safer, and graduate and attend college in higher
numbers.”
Bill Gates, Speech to the National High School Summit,
February 2005
Sports
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was
much better than I thought I was, and would make me do
more in a positive sense. He was the frst person who taught
me not to be afraid of failure.
Mike Krzyzewski
Stagnation
Together we have come to realize that for most men, the
right to learn is curtailed buy the obligation to attend school.
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Ivan Illich
Starting a School
Success
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if
some students have to help others to make the grade, is
good preparation for democracy.
William Glasser
Surrender
We shall not fag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall
fght in France, we shall fght on the seas and oceans, we
shall fght with growing confdence and growing strength in
the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
We shall fght on the beaches, we shall fght on the landing
grounds, we shall fght in the felds and in the streets, we
shall fght in the hills; we shall never surrender,
Winston Churchill, to the House of Commons of the British
Parliament on 4 June 1940.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_shall_fght_on_the_beaches
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Comment: Parents and teachers ought to feel the same
importance as people did when they heard or read these
words. The time is now. We cannot surrender to the forces
of inertia. Churchill's words will inspire parents to band
together and say, “We will fght for students in PTO
meetings, in one-on-one interactions with teachers and
administrators, we will organize parents and inspire them
with words” – including the abridged digital version of this
book of quotations, available on scribd.com, and the audio
book on YouTube.
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Teachers
Unfortunately, to most people, teaching is the giving of
knowledge. What are you going to tell the students? What is
your expertise? But teaching is really about bringing out
what's already inside people.
Dennis Littky
Technology
What you are seeing is the state school tuitions go up.
California being a strong case of that, but that's broadly
across the United States with the exception of four or fve
states. If you go way back into the '60s and '70s, most places
had truly free [college education].It just puts pressure on for
innovation. Thank goodness there is a way to get innovation,
hopefully in the personnel system, but also in [online
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education].
If you take K-12, online can have some impact there. There's
people like Rocketship, a charter that is trying to mix in
online so they can have more efcient teaching. The role of
online in K-12, I hope we can prove that out, but there it's
the teacher efectiveness that is probably the biggest thing.
If you move up to college level, the online thing can be
absolutely phenomenal because students are more mature,
motivated, involved in things. Because that piece can be done
without any political complexity, I'm a little more sure that
we'll drive a lot of efciency in what college learning morphs
into than K-12.
Bill Gates, Interview on Cnet.com
Tests
Multiple Intelligences is most usefully invoked in the service
of two educational goals. The frst is to help students
achieve certain valued adult roles or end-states. If one
wants everyone to be able to engage in artistic activities, it
makes sense to develop linguistic intelligence for the poet,
spatial intelligence for the graphic artist and sculptor,
movement intelligence for the dancer and musical
intelligence for the composer. If we want everyone to be
civil, then it is important to develop the personal
intelligences.
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Howard Gardner, Intelligence Reframed, p. 167 (emphasis
added).
Time
There are only two places in the world where time takes
precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
William Glasser
Time is Irreversible
Think ahead. Follow your gut.
Gabriel Serrao Mazzei
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trained to utilize the environment correctly.
Trust
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Trust. Truth. No Put-downs.
Active Listening. Personal Best.
Seen at New City School in St. Louis, Mo.
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Understanding, Performances of
When it comes to probing a student’s understanding of
evolution, the shrewd pedagogue looks beyond the mastery
of dictionary defnitions or the recitation of textbook
examples. A student demonstrates or “performs” his
understanding when he can examine a range of species
found in diferent ecological niches and speculate about the
reasons for their particular ensemble of traits. A student
performs her understanding of the Holocaust when she can
compare events in a Nazi concentration camp to such
contemporary genocidal events as those in Bosnia, Kosovo or
Rwanda in the 1990s.
Howard Gardner, Intelligence Reframed
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alternatives to the written test are used (see “Testing”).
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Warehouses
World View
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion
live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want
to get involved.
Bill Gates
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End note
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For all other subjects, the teacher can pose a project or
problem that is relevant to the student. Once the problem is
defned, the class can be broken down into groups of 4-5
students in order to research the solution to the problem. If
complex, each of the groups may study an aspect of the
problem. With these subjects, the student uses the computer
as a research tool (after having learned to read). Students are
taught to use search engines such as Google or Yahoo as
well as the intranet made available by teachers gathering
information relevant for the students.
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What do we need to make this happen?
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A. Fischler
Background
Dr. Fischler is President Emeritus and University Professor at Nova
Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He served as
President of Nova University from July 1970 to July 1992. Prior to
coming to Nova in 1966, Dr. Fischler was Professor of Education at
the University of California, Berkeley. He began his career in education
as a science teacher and earned his Ed.D. degree at Columbia
University. Subsequently, he became Assistant Professor at the
Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. After his
retirement as President, he served on the Broward County School
Board from 1994 to 1998. Dr. Fischler has been a consultant to the
Ford Foundation, to various State Departments of Education, and to
school districts in a number of states. He has authored many articles
and publications dealing with science education and advanced
teaching methods. He is a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and a member of numerous other
educational and scientifc organizations. His blog
TheStudentIsTheClass.com proposes a zone of innovation that will
introduce computer-based instruction to reform existing schools.
QBE Schools have adopted Dr. Fischler's CAI “core” (English and
mathematics). It is the aim of the school's administrators to nurture
Dr. Fischler's vision (above), which appeared as the frst entry in his
blog in 2006.
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Schools That Inspire Us
hightechhigh.org, youtube.com/hthvideo
Metcenter.org, youtube.com/bplearning
http://www.cps.ci.cambridge.ma.us/crls/
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is, or should be, the development of the spiritual man, that is of
that part of each one of us which, with development and training,
is capable of a vision or direct apprehension of the purpose of life,
of the true nature of ourselves, of the world in which we live and
of such other worlds or states of being as may exist besides.”
johncorlette.com
New City School, St. Louis, Missouri: One of the leading schools
built around Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences theory.
Principal Tom Hoerr is a frequent writer in the ASCD magazine
Educational Leadership. (ASCD published Dennis Littky;'s book,
The Big Picture.) The school's staf have produced remarkable
workbooks to help teachers and administrators introduce
portfolios to track progress made in developing a student's various
abilities. Slogan: Joyful learning.
NewCitySchool.org
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About the Editors of this book
Will Sutherland was trained as a teacher at St Luke’s College Exeter,
majoring in Physical Education, Maths and Education. Having played
rugby at county level he played for the College during his first 2 years. He
had sailed since he was 6, and annually competed with his Father in the
Enterprise UK National championships. Being keen to get involved in
outdoor adventure sports he spent the last year at college, white water
canoeing, canoe surfing, climbing, diving and sailing bigger boats.
It was whilst learning to ice climb on Ben Nevis that he realized he had to
learn to ski in order to access ice climbs in the Alps. He meet JC and
hence ended up in Switzerland at Aiglon for one year to learn to ski whilst
teaching maths and being responsible for Junior Expeditions. He
eventually stayed 17 years, spending 6 years as Housemaster in
Belevedere, and 10 in Alpina.
Will has also been working as a personal Mentor to business leaders and
has kept his eye on educational developments whilst mentoring 6th form
students during their ‘A’Levels and on through college, usually working
very closely with the student, parents and college together.
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He has recently opened a Sea School in Dartmouth, Devon, UK, and is
also working on the development of new techniques for the use of IT in
teaching and learning. Much of this work will be used in this “Aiglon
Alumni Satellite Project.”
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References
Ferriter, William M. “Preparing to Teach Digitally,”
Educational Leadership, May 2010, pages 88-89
thinkexist.com/quotations/schools/
oprah.com/omagazine/Os-Words-That-Matter-
Inspirational-Quotes
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FINAL QUOTE
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