École des Roches
| École des Roches | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1899 |
| address |
295 Avenue Edmond Demolins |
| place | Verneuil-sur-Avre |
| Department | Your |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 44 '33 " N , 0 ° 53' 40" E |
| management | Frédéric Catogni |
| Website | www.ecoledesroches.com |
The École des Roches is a French boarding school founded by Edmond Demolins in 1899, west of Verneuil-sur-Avre in Normandy .
The motto of the École des Roches was: “Bien armés pour la vie”, it pursues a reform pedagogical school concept , influenced by Adolphe Ferrière and Gustave Monod , and is in the tradition of the English country education centers Abbotsholme and Bedales . She is co-educational and teaches from maternity to lycée . The school also offers the possibility of Abibac and preparation for the elite Grandes écoles of France.
Today, the school is an exclusive institution, internationally designed and aimed at an elite among parents - it is proud to count among its alumni the children of the de Habsbourg , de Rothschild , Peugeot , Taittinger families or the El Glaoui princes from Morocco .
literature
- Edmond Demolins: L'Éducation nouvelle - L'École des Roches , Librairie Firmin-Didot, 1898 (French)
- Georges Bertier: L'École des Roches , Collection "Les sciences et l'art de l'éducation", Éditions du Cerf, Juvisy, 1934 (French)
- Nathalie Duval: L'École des Roches, phare français au sein de la nébuleuse de l'Éducation nouvelle (1899–1944). In: Paedagogica historica: international journal of the history of education ; 42 (2006) 1/2, pp. 63-75 (French)
- Nathalie Duval: L'École des Roches, une école nouvelle pour les élites , Belin, Collection “Histoire de l'éducation”, Paris, 2009 (French)
Web links
- Site de l'école des Roches (French)