Saturday, 26 May 2012

A Suggestion

For those of you who did not share my Rannoch School years (1972-1975), my name is Aernout Fabius. Rannoch may not be remembered as a bastion of learning, but it offered a lot more than my school in Holland had offered be before I joined Dunrobin School in 1971.

 Both Schools were members of the Round Square, based on the principles of an insparational educator, Dr Kurt Hahn. Hahn founded Schule Schloss Salem in 1920 and was its first headmaster until 1933.

Hahn was forced to leave Germany and settled in Scotland, where he founded Gordonstoun on similar principles to the school in Salem. Later, Hahn converted to Christianity and preached in the Church of Scotland. He also started an international organisation of schools, now called the Round Square. Hahn was also involved in the foundation of the Outward Bound Organisation, Atlantic College in Wales and the wider United World College movement, and the Duke of Edinburgh Award.

The above is just a taster, and providing I can find a few people to help me, I will say only this:
  1. No point making ambitious promises I cannot keep.
  2. Rannoch was a good influence on my life and I would like to share that with all those who benefited from their own time in Rannoch Moore