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As a result of the industrial and social revolutions taking place basically over the 18th and 19th centuries, knowledge ceased to be a class birthright and became more widespread through an early public education system complemented by education institutions founded under the auspices of social bodies of a civic nature.
As time went by what was taught at these institutions would have a positive determining influence on the very society which gave rise to their creation and its schools would form the foundations on which modern contemporary society was built, the melting pot of the positive values of our old continent.
Even today we find some of these schools often located in historical buildings which enrich the cities where they were built. Such schools today continue to form a wide range of education available with the outstanding mark that they are given by the character on which an unquestionable added value is founded.
All of them, with their common identifying features also doubtlessly have their own particular problems. Gran Asociación-Colegio, along with other European institutes, has created the instrument which allows not only the unquestionable assets of their history to be made widely known but also enables the problems stemming from their singular nature to be tackled.
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The ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN SCHOOLS OVER 150 YEARS OLD has the following main aims:
- To exalt such common moral and human values for Europeans as solidarity, equality, responsibility, justice, freedom, democracy and any others leading to the pupil’s full education.
- To develop training modules for proper guidance in the role of the school as a means of acclaiming European citizenship among students.
- To typify the presence at schools of fathers, mothers and relations of pupils able to pass on information about experiences applicable to pupils’ future professional life.
- To strengthen bonds of cohabitation, companionship and friendship between the students at different centres by taking part in cultural and social activities through works selected at competitions.
- To foster exchange visits by teachers, students and where applicable, parents, tutors and relatives, to gain mutual environmental knowledge of European countries.
- To assess the practical results in foreign language teaching on different levels, pointing out the most ideal resources applied in different circumstances.
- To promote training schemes applicable to teachers and to parents or tutors on a common basis applicable to the different countries according to their respective customs.
- To establish European level training schemes for the management teams of teaching centres.
- To make comparative studies of teachers’ roles in the different European countries with the corresponding enrichment by means of swapping experiences.
- To attempt to apply minimum common questionnaires for the different levels given at the centres, always respecting the legal regulations in each country.
- To maintain the main characteristics which formerly motivated the establishment of the centres that are compatible with society’s present demands.
- To link up with universities, seminaries, studies, colleges and public or private institutions of similar age so that proper cooperation is given in the application of ends, over and above the levels at which each of them works.
- To pursue public recognition of the long and fruitful work done over the last century and a half forming the substrate of today’s society in towns, environments and cities in which they continue to operate.
- To obtain special treatment from different social sectors granting prizes, rewards, distinctions and scholarships that might affect the work done by these centres in a particular way.
- To tackle architectural and more casuistic problems in a common and supportive way when the schools are located in historical districts and occupy buildings of which many are protected for their artistic value.
- Without falling into classicism, to manage to make the families of pupils from these centres feel duly proud at having been educated at them, generation after generation, faithful to the principles that have always inspired them.
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