Educating for Peace: 100 Years of Ecolint

As the world’s first, largest and most famous international school, Ecolint has been at the forefront of international education for 100 years.

This magnificent, illustrated book, written alternately in English and French and produced to celebrate Ecolint’s centenary, gives an overview of the school’s inspired but fragile birth in 1924 and spectacular development: telling the story of the brilliant, colourful, sometimes eccentric visionaries who shaped the school, involving (amongst others) distinguished academics, philanthropists and human rights activists, a famous 20th Century philosopher (who became the University of Geneva’s first female professor after teaching in Ecolint for decades), a celebrated psychoanalyst, an avant-garde novelist and – in a cameo role – even Albert Einstein. It shows the courage of the school’s staff, students and parents throughout World War II, when Ecolint struggled to survive but became a haven for children fleeing Nazi atrocities, inspiring alumni to smuggle these refugees into Switzerland, join the Résistance, be parachuted as a secret agent into Nazi-occupied France or spearhead the liberation of Buchenwald.

Although there have been previous volumes published about Ecolint, the visual evidence – in the form of photographs, images and documents – has never before been presented comprehensively and coherently. Punctuated with profound crises and soaring successes, joys and woes, individuals and idiosyncrasies, events and edifices encompassing a range of sites, their development stretching over a century, this well-researched, beautifully written book, which will delight and amaze readers, provides a brand-new insight into a ground-breaking, noble and idealistic institution.

Welcome to Educating for Peace: 100 Years of Ecolint.

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