 Kurt Hahn Kurt Martin Hahn (5 June, 1886 - 14 December, 1974) was a German educator who founded projects such as the Schule Schloss Salem in Germany, Gordonstoun in Scotland, Atlantic College in Wales, the United World Colleges movement, and the Outward Bound schools. These schools are devoted to teaching the "six pillars" of internationalism, democracy, environment, adventure, leadership and service. Kurt Hahn Source: United World Colleges Official Website This work is copyrighted. ...
Salem Castle Spetzgart and Härlen Schule Schloss Salem (Anglicisation: School of Salem Castle, Salem Castle School) is a boarding school with campuses in Salem and Überlingen in Baden-Württemberg, Southern Germany. ...
Gordonstoun House Gordonstoun (originally in full, the British Salem School in Gordonstoun) is a Scottish co-educational independent school. ...
The United World College of the Atlantic, more commonly referred to simply as Atlantic College, is a private boarding school in Wales, United Kingdom. ...
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Hahn was born in Berlin. He attended a German university and then Balliol College, Oxford. He was still in statu pupillari at Oxford in 1914. Shortly before the Great War broke out he left Britain and traveled home to Berlin. He spent the remainder of the war translating English newspapers into German at the behest of the German government.
Hahn's educational philosophy was based on respect for adolescents, whom he believed to possess an innate decency and moral sense, but who were (he believed) corrupted by society as they aged. He believed that education could prevent this corruption if students were given opportunities for personal leadership, and to see the results of their own actions. This is one reason for the focus on outdoor adventure in his philosophy. Hahn's educational thinking was crystallized by World War I, which he viewed as proof of the corruption of society and a promise of later doom if people (Europeans particularly) could not be taught differently. In 1920, in cooperation with Prince Max von Baden, he founded the Schule Schloss Salem. Max von Baden's great-grandson Michael von Baden attended Aberlour House (a Hahn foundation) in the 1980s. There, in addition to acting as headmaster of the school, he taught history, politics, ancient Greek, Shakespeare and Schiller. He was deeply influenced by Plato's thought. He said that Eton in some regards a model school. He invented a hierarchical system of schooling. Pupils were given ranks and a the higher ranking ones were expected to control the lower ranking ones. This also meant that if several pupils were involved in some bad behaviour and were caught the most senior ranking would be punished most because he had not taken responsibility and prevented poor behaviour from his subordinates. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...
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Prince Maximilian of Baden (Max von Baden) (1 July 1867–6 November 1929) was the cousin and heir of Grand Duke Frederick II of Baden, and succeeded Frederick as head of the Grand Ducal House in 1928. ...
Though Hahn had been raised Jewish, he was an early admirer of the Nazis and there was a Hitlerjugend chapter at the Salem school. Hahn began his fierce criticism of the Hitler regime after a young communist was killed by Hitler's storm troopers in the presence of his mother. When he spoke out against the storm troopers, who had received no punishment, Hahn spoke against Hitler publicly. He asked the students, faculty, alumni of the Salem school to join him in his fight. He was imprisoned for three days for his defiance. After an appeal by British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Hahn was released with the condition that he leave Germany. He fled to Britain, where the next year he founded the Gordonstoun school in an abandoned Scottish castle (a number of Hahnian schools are located in formerly abandoned castles). Later, Hahn converted to Christianity and indeed preached in the Church of Scotland. The German Nazi party established the Hitler Youth (in German: Hitler-Jugend or HJ) in 1926. ...
James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 1866–9 November 1937) was a British politician and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ...
Gordonstoun House Gordonstoun (originally in full, the British Salem School in Gordonstoun) is a Scottish co-educational independent school. ...
In Hahn's words, "The purpose of education is to impel people into value forming experiences, and (to ensure these qualities): a readiness for sensible self-denial, tenacity in pursuit, an enterprising spirit...and above all, compassion."
Hahn denounced assassination bids on Hitler. He said that the killing of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed that slaying rulers solved nothing. After Hahn stood down as Headmaster of Gordonstoun he returned to Salem where he worked on as a housemaster.
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