Being Round Square an international network of like-minded schools that has experiential learning at its heart, we believe that learning is much more significant and transformative when students are given the opportunity to discover and develop their unique profiles of passion and talents.
At its heart, values-based education deals with qualities and attitudes, with personality and strength of character. It comes from experiences, real-world learning and periods of reflection.
In our schools, we have long understood the value in forging and cultivating personal friendships throughout the world. We have championed projects, large and small, from pen pal pairings and video conferences through to international exchanges.
It’s a timeless question, and a topic for debate the world over: Is it possible to learn to be a leader? Or is leadership wholly a question of inherent personality, charisma: an innate set of skills and attributes that you either have or you don’t?
Global citizenship was a cornerstone of Kurt Hahn’s beliefs about education and now appears more essential than ever as we strive to manage issues of planetary dimensions. His theories on education were the inspiration for the founding of Round Square, and are still very much at the heart of our practices today.
