MESSAGE from the Head of School
“To develop social responsibility through exemplary programs of outreach and service.”
DEAR CATHEDRAL SCHOOL COMMUNITY:
While educators can fall victim to a somewhat utopian and often unrealistic conceptualization of the role of schools, there is a part of any educator’s mentality that recognizes the need to develop young men and women with the capacity to
change the world. In fact, John Dewey, the early 20th-century philosopher and educator, advanced that very notion. Dewey recognized that it wasn’t the acquisition of knowledge that mattered. Rather, it was the application of knowledge for social advancement that represented the true objective of education and educators. Since its founding, Cathedral School has sought to instill this responsibility in its students, and nowhere is that effort more apparent than through our programs of outreach and social justice. In any given week, Cathedral boys are engaged in the practice of serving others. Those opportunities occur on campus, in collaboration with Grace Cathedral, and throughout the Bay Area. And in important ways, our school recognizes that the boys have as much to gain as they have to give. Service remains such an essential component of our educa- tional philosophy and approach, and thus, we thought it was important to highlight in this edition of the Red&Gold. Our boys report regularly that their interactions with others through service represent some of their most profound experi- ences at Cathedral School for Boys, and we trust that they emerge from their time at Cathedral ready and eager to make a difference in the world. Very truly yours,
David Leshchenko ‘22 and Finn Hocking ‘22 take a quick break while their class prepares a meal at City Hope during our Day of Service.
Burns Jones Head of School
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