Academic Life
Education is lived, not just learned
Our philosophy is based on a commitment to teaching and genuine outward-looking scholarship. All our pupils are ambitious academically and we want each to find their areas of interest. Examination results are key, yet it is vital that boys also develop their own intellectual interests and learn to think confidently for themselves. Boys are curious and need space during their lessons and beyond to explore the questions their subject studies suggest to them. It is often in learning for its own sake, and in leading others, that the most significant progress is made. Each year we provide a cross curricular Free Learning Week that takes a different focus centred around a theme. In 2017 it was Dulwich Political, 2016 Dulwich Linguistic, in 2015 Dulwich Inventive and in 2014 Dulwich Creative. Other examples of free learning at the College include: the Upper School Symposium; the Extended Essay; national and international competitions including Debating, the Free Learning
Spanish poetry recitation and translation competition, the Weizmann Safe Cracking competition and a plethora of
music competitions; our extensive Union of societies and clubs; and the learning and debate we engender from important Dulwich anniversaries such as the centenary of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition in 2014-16.
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