The Houses
The House system is a feature common to Public Schools in India especially Christian run schools (based on an equivalent system in England).
The four houses are named after the patron saints of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom:
- St. Andrew of Scotland - colour blue
- St. David of Wales - colour yellow
- St. George of England - colour red
- St. Patrick of Northern Ireland -colour green
The houses compete with one another in academics, games, track and field sports, aquatics, arts, literary, dramatic and music competitions.
Read more about this topic: St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore
Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds clouds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)