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What were three things that were valuable in your Aiglon experience? Or two things, or five things?
The objective should be to relate our comments to the John Corlette vision as he communicated it to each of us. This may help the board and the school.
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The Aiglon web site states that: ...The intention [of Meditation] is to provoke students by creating an appropriate atmosphere and then using the talk to "drop a single idea into the silence" for students to reflect on. ...
The Meditation period is certainly a core piece of the Aiglon experience.
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Post #2 Fuffy King wrote on January 11, 2009 at 2:04am I remember meditation starting off. It always seemed like a good time to catch up on lost sleep... But even now I find I require half an hour of quiet time every morning to plan my day and get my brain organised. Coffee is also required at that time, but I do think that the basic principle is the same.
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Post #3 You wrote on January 13, 2009 at 5:15pm I agree. There is something fundamental about looking inside before proceeding outside. I was always enthralled by the "whirring" and "intensity" of some of the silences...
Post #4 Fuffy King wrote on January 16, 2009 at 8:06am I was always too busy to listen to the silence. Do you remember how long those silences were when you finally plucked up the courage to give your own meditation? I can't even remember what I said... Can you?
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I heard that TODAY students routinely leave school and visit home during the term. Some students just travel around the country. I don�t recall that happening when I went to Aiglon in 1973-76. I recall that we were on expeditions or on the campus during the weekend, building relationships, working on clubs, enhancing the social life with our participation. Maybe I�m old fashioned, but the purpose of the school was to create �absences so the hearts can grow fonder� and that meant a bit of homesickness. If a student is not on campus, then the school community is poorer for the lack of that person. Just attending Sat. Night Dance was part of the culture-making. (FULL DISCLOSURE: the school was nice about letting my dad take me out of school for 14 days or so so I could attend a conference in Nairobi in 1974. What an opportunity to meet Maurice Strong and see the Environmental Programme get started. I missed mid-term exams, but the school made allowances -- I'm sure there are times and necessities that make it possible for students to get off campus, but they should be rare so as to build a campus "atmosphere" on the weekend).
Fuffy King wrote on January 16, 2009 at 8:02am My daughter went to Sherborne Girls School in Dorset. The longest she ever had to stay at school was 3 weeks at the start of the Autumn term. Every other weekend the school was actually closed. She also had a mobile phone and called home most evenings. So homesickness was never a real issue like it was for us.
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Is it true that students TODAY just sit around as a punishment? I hear that the area around Villars has grown and that it�s more dangerous to run along the road, but � laps are an institution! Even if the LAP were just ten laps around Alpina field� that would be something. I need more information about the substitute for laps.
I remember getting laps in my final term. I couldn't believe it... a senior getting one lap for talking in class. Nancy Maxwell gave it to me and she was right... I was being snarky.
Fuffy King wrote on January 16, 2009 I managed 6 years with only 1 lot of laps, but some people obviously didn't have any other ideas on how to spend a Saturday afternoon. I can't BEGIN to imagine Aiglon without laps!!!
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THREE THINGS
Here's what SWERDLIN remembers from Aiglon: Tough love. Rugby scrimmages designed to thicken our skins. Brutal session of impromptu karate on the Alpina field which miraculously landed no one in the hospital to my memory. The sharp and alarming report of Tony Hyde's voice that turned mischief into mush in a heartbeat, and his look of astonishment when a physics concept wasn�t immediately grasped, yet always with a twinkle of amusement and discernible hope that we would prevail. -- Scott Swerdlin
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