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WELCOME FROM THE PRINCIPAL
In choosing a boarding education for your boy, you will no doubt have spent considerable time thinking
about how it might benefit your son. From our perspective, you have opened a world of unparalleled
opportunity for personal, social and intellectual development. Let me share with you some of my thoughts
on boarding as way of introducing you to our Boarding Handbook.
Education should be more than mere instruction. It begins with the individual’s quest for knowledge and
self-expression; it unfolds through well-structured opportunities for social, intellectual, physical, spiritual
and emotional growth; it triumphs with the individual who is self-assured yet compassionate, open-minded
yet goal orientated, globally alert yet nationally proud. At Aitchison College, we offer a boarding education
for boys set within a context for families who value these qualities and who hold high aspirations for their
children at home and abroad.
As part of an extended family, a boarder soon discovers that living away from home encourages him to
embrace learning and personal development in ways unattainable to other students. Perhaps it is the
underestimated yet powerful fact that a boy is expected to master a disciplined living, study, sports and