English College in Prague

Rt Hon The Lord Holme of Cheltenham PC CBE MA
The First Chairman of the Board of Governors (1994 - 2008)

Lord Holme had wide experience of politics, public life, publishing and education. He was a Member of the House of Lords and a Privy Councillor. He resigned from the Board of Governors at The English College in Prague on 30th April 2008 and died after a long illness on 4 May 2008.

Message from Lord Holme to The English College and its students and staff:

There are at least three principal virtues of the sort of liberal humanistic education which this college offers and which inspired me from the very beginning of the English College.

1. The concept of developing each student’s full human potential. Genetic inheritance confers upon each of us a bundle of talents, aptitudes and responses and the life chances that go with them. It is one of the roles of education to identify and nurture these potentials and to raise them further so each student realises his or her fullest self.

2. The ideal of a community built on reciprocity. A school is a community in miniature and it should be guided by mutual care and respect with each student “putting back” into the common store of good will and positive actions at least as much as they take out. Dealings between members of the school community should be characterised by care, consideration and courtesy.

3. The importance of international understanding. Not just between the UK and the Czech Republic with ties of language, literature and learning but throughout the larger family of mankind when so many shared problems can only be solved by shared values and shared actions. We are educating responsible and aware citizens of an ever-smaller interdependent world.

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Message from Lord Holme

Rt Hon The Lord Holme of Cheltenham PC CBE MA The First Chairman of the Board of Governors (1994 - 2008)

Rt Hon The Lord Holme of Cheltenham PC CBE MA
The First Chairman of the Board of Governors (1994 - 2008)