House System
The School has a house system that fosters competition among its students and prepares them for the rigors of Inter School Level Competition. The first established houses were named after famous explorers; Armstrong Neil Armstrong, Thesiger Wilfred Thesiger and Cousteau Jacques Cousteau. The houses are names after British writers later when the house system was re-established: Orwell, Keats, Shakespeare, and Dickens.
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Famous quotes containing the words house and/or system:
“Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent; do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is nearby than kindred who are far away.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 27:10.
“Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)