“You’ve got this, Joeren.” “Allez la France.” “Go, Stefania.” “Viva Mexico.” “You can do it, FDNY” “Keep it up, Marie.” If you were running in, volunteering for or like me cheering from the sidelines the New York City Marathon this past Sunday, you will most certainly have been infused with
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Hardly a day goes by without Le Monde, the New York Times or some other leading newspaper publishing at least one article on the subject of climate change, whether it be about what is causing this phenomenon, how it is impacting the world, or what consequences it will have if nothing
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There is more to life than one’s job, though we who are fortunate to be doing what we love most might not always give that impression. Such is the perspective which many outstanding schools, including our own, share with their students, in keeping with a humanistic vision of education as a
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Among memorable openings to books, it would be hard to find one more moving than the following: “I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.” Many will recognize these words as belonging to Malala Yousafzai, written at the start
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Like me, you may have read about last month’s entrance examination at one of the most prestigious and renowned universities in France, where such extraordinary thinkers as Assia Djebar, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jean-Paul Sartre, Aimé Césaire and Michel Foucault once studied: the École Normale Supérieure, the most famous location of which lies
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“Entrepreneur” is a word of French origin, meaning in the strictest sense someone “who undertakes to effect an action, most often long and complex (Larousse Dictionary).” And whether we conclude that it was Richard Cantillon in 1755 or Jean-Baptiste Say in 1803 who first coined this term, there remains a strong connection between
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As all secondary students who enjoy lunch in our cafeteria will know, we decided last year to make this space entirely free of electronic devices between the hours of 11:00 and 2:00, in large part because we believe there is nothing more important than their interaction with each other, that face-to-face
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Following the announcement of our new strategic plan last January, students, faculty and families have been VERY excited about the makerspace we will soon be building for our primary and secondary schools. Those familiar with the concept of “making”, often because they have visited the “makerfaire” that takes place at
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Rare is the person who does not love the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes,” penned by cartoonist Bill Watterson, syndicated in the United States between 1985 and 1995, and the subject of more than 30 million books published over the last 30 years. This highly entertaining, mordant, insightful cartoon recounts the
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It was early morning. The sky billowed with snow, which fell like a whisper and packed itself like the wool of a loom being tightened. And as the sky scrapers of Manhattan gave way to the wooded hills of the Catskills, the words of American poet Mary Oliver came to
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