Diversity: editorÊs introduction
Neil Croally
A school should be many things. Semantron attempts to embody that prescription. There are essays here from students and from staff, on subjects from literature to Physics, History to Medicine, Economics to Mathematics. Many of the essays, though not all, are based on the Extended Essay produced by students in their last summer holiday at the school. These too – in their subject matter, of course, but also in their formatting and referencing – are various. I have not attempted to impose the sort of order most publishers would require.
Why not?
These essays are not the work of Semantron . More important, it is good to see how minds develop. I hope that the contributors to this issue will, at some point, look back at their work published here and say ÂOh! ThatÊs what and how I was thinking then.Ê Five of the essays in the section Idea were written to compete for prizes in the Erasmus Competition. Ali NedenÊs essay won third prize. Dillon HarindiranÊs essay on teacherÊs pay won the Staton Prize, which is awarded by RegentÊs Park College, Oxford.
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