Ecole d'Humanité
The Ecole d'Humanité is an international boarding school, located in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. It was founded in 1934 by Paul Geheeb and his wife Edith Geheeb Cassirer. In 1910, Geheeb had founded a similar school, the Odenwaldschule, in his native Germany, but he fled to Switzerland to found the new school after the NSDAP came to power.
| Ecole d'Humanité | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
Haupthaus Hasliberg, Goldern Switzerland | |
| Information | |
| Type | Private, Swiss International Boarding School |
| Motto | "Deviens qui tu es", "Become who you are" |
| Established | 1934 |
| Authorizer | Federation of Swiss Private Schools / Cognia / SSA |
| Faculty | ~50 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Enrollment | ~130 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 1 : 5 |
| Color(s) | Black and Gold |
| Song | "Das Lied von der Moldau" by Bertolt Brecht |
| Mascot | The Ecole Eagle |
| Endowment | Undisclosed |
| Annual tuition | The school's tuition varies depending on different factors, such as student needs and extra curricular pursuits, to anywhere up to CHF 100,000 ($102,989) |
| Website | http://www.ecole.ch |
The Ecole d'Humanité was first located in Versoix, Geneva before Geheeb moved it to its present location on the Hasliberg in 1946. The school places a heavy emphasis on ending academic classes by noon and dedicating the afternoons to leisure pursuits with the heaviest emphasis on hiking and skiing. In 1956, Natalie Lüthi-Peterson, an American academic and a protege of Geheeb, took charge of the Ecole's American Program, allowing students to prepare for exams needed for entry into elite American and British universities while studying in Switzerland. Following the death of Paul Geheeb in 1961, directorship of the school passed to Natalie and her Swiss husband Armin Lüthi, together they oversaw operations at the school until 1993.