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Round Square is a world-wide
association of more than 70 schools on five continents
sharing unique and ambitious goals. Students attending Round
Square schools make a strong commitment, beyond academic
excellence, to personal development and responsibility. This
is achieved by participating in community service, work
projects, exchange programmes and adventuring, which can,
and often does, take students half way around the world.
Round Square is based on the
theories of experiential educational philosopher Kurt Hahn.
Dr. Hahn, one of the twentieth century's foremost
revolutionaries in education, believed that schools should
have a greater purpose beyond preparing students for college
and university. He believed that it was crucial for young
people to prepare for life by having them face it directly
and experience it in ways that would demand courage,
generosity, imagination, principle and resolution. Round
Square is an organization embodying this educational
revolution.
Dr. Hahn has led to the
creation of many outstanding schools, as well as Outward
Bound, the United World Colleges and the Duke of Edinburgh's
Award. As the number of Round Square schools continues to
grow and the co-operation among these organizations
increases, Hahn's philosophy is making a solid and creative
impact on the lives of thousands of students.
All member schools share a
strong underlying belief: this is the view of learning by
doing. It is an ongoing process of self-confrontation and
formation, involving a fundamental objective of the full and
individual development of every student into a whole
person…academically, physically, culturally and spiritually,
within the supportive environment of a school community.
This underlying belief also
embraces the importance of service to others, adventure and
leadership training, responsibility and international
understanding. All these are essential in preparing young
people to meet the challenges of the future with confidence
and compassion
Round Square
schools are founded on a philosophy which embraces a
series of six pillars or precepts which can be summed up
in the word IDEALS. They are Internationalism,
Democracy, Environment, Adventure, Leadership and
Service. Students at Round Square schools make a
commitment to addressing each of these pillars through
exchanges, work projects, community service and
adventure.
The overriding
goal is to ensure the full and individual development of
every student as a whole person through the simultaneous
realization of academic, physical, cultural and
spiritual aspirations.
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'CGS Art
Competition 2011. Here is the direct link to enter
view the art and then use the voting link on top to
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