1. Kurt Hahn

2. “THERE IS MORE TO YOU THAN
YOU THINK
Quotes from Kurt Hahn
"I regard it as the foremost task of
education to insure the survival of these
qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an
undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit,
readiness for sensible self denial, and
above all, compassion."

3. Quotes from Kurt Hahn
...I was once present at a meeting
presided over by Doctor Carl
Reinhardt. One schoolmaster made
the remark, 'I have no faith in this
boy.' Dr. Reinhardt said to him, 'Then
you have no right to educate him.'

4. Quotes from Kurt Hahn
...As our society has become information
rich, it has become action poor. It has
become poor in the necessity and
possibility for struggle against the
environment. As affluence has increased,
the young person's environment has
become impoverished for responsible and
productive action, or any action that tests
and develops him.

5. Salem School

6. Salem School

7. The Seven Laws of Salem School
1. Give children the opportunity for self-discovery.
[Give them a chance to discover themselves.]
2. Make the children meet with triumph and defeat.
[See to it that they experience both success and defeat.]
3. Give the children the opportunity of self-effacement in the
common cause.
[See to it that they have the chance to forget themselves in the pursuit of a common
cause.]
4. Provide periods of silence.
[See to it that there are periods of silence.]
5. Train the imagination.
[Train the imagination, the ability to participate and plan.]
6. Make games important but not predominant.
[Take sports and games seriously, but only as part of the whole.]
7. Free the sons of the wealthy and powerful from the
enervating sense of privilege.
[Free them of the rich and influential parents and from the paralysing influence of
wealth and privilege.]

8. Salem School
Each day, the students took a silent walk to
commune with nature and revitalize their powers
of reflection. To keep mental and physical growth
in balance, Hahn developed the
notion of a training plan for his students, each of
whom committed himself to an individually
designed, gradually more challenging regimen of
physical exercise Unlike the physical education
program of other schools, the aim of the
training plan was simply to establish good living
habits, not to produce high levels of performance
in competitive games.

9. Salem School
An assassin failed to end Hahn's life in 1923. Still
in his early thirties, the schoolmaster was
controversial, a target because he was a moral
leader far beyond the lives of his students and
teachers. The director of Salem - the school's
name means "peace" – refused to back down
from the moral aims that he believed should
animate every aspect of education. In a nation
frighteningly polarized by the right and left in
political debate, Hahn forced educational issues
into the larger discussion of how society should be
organized, and what people must do to maintain
human decency in a world of conflict. No idyllic
schoolmaster's life awaited him.

10. Hahn’s ideals
"Hahn's favourite story was the Good
Samaritan, wherein the strong, those
clearly in a position to
help the most, failed to act. It was the
outsider, the weak, the despised who
taught what it means
to be a civilized human being."

11. Hahn’s ideals
"Hahn believed that some separation
from the existing human world,
into the intensity of a journey-quest,
confronting challenges and
transforming
opportunities for service, could change
the balance of power in young people."