Today is UNESCO’s International Day of Education, and the theme is 'learning for lasting peace.' For the occasion, we’ve held insightful conversations with members of our faculty, and here are a few of their thoughts!

“Education helps build acceptance between various groups of people. […] I think that builds empathy; really being able to understand why someone struggles in a particular area or why someone feels super passionate about one thing, or you know, why someone else can feel entirely the opposite thing about the same topic.

I think that, as educators, we should (and do!) take responsibility for building conflict resolution skills—teaching kids how to not agree, but to work their way forward to some sort of a consensus.”
-Amber Rommens, Social Science Teacher and Senior School and IB DP Coordinator

“Holistic education is important to give students dispositions that will help them navigate and lead in a world that is very different from ours—different from when we were students. And the skills that we teach them will get the students to be able to innovate so that they can create peace and engineer solutions to global issues.”
-Marie-France Labelle, Director of Academics

“[Education should be] building curiosity, awe, wonderment, and play, [while] teaching students how to self-regulate and build mindfulness. [That means teaching them] the difference between feeling, perception, opinion, and belief.
[With this], I think [they]’d have, potentially, a little more inner peace.”
-Draco Szathmáry, Mathematics Teacher