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Harlaxton Happenings: London and Paris

Posted At : 17 November 2010 13:14 | Posted By : Anne Hollick
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“Okay, Everybody to London on Friday, then Paris Next Wednesday.”

So, all of us went to London Friday before last (5 November). The whole College! Isn’t that a fabulous way to learn and to teach—to take the whole College to London, students and faculty together, to experience what we have been reading in our books and hearing in class?

Our British faculty led tours of St. Paul’s Cathedral, that “warehouse of monuments to British heroes.” Students examined specific paintings in the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, images that are part of their British Studies course. Quite a few of us stayed on until late Friday night, to see some of the best drama in the world or hear some of the best music or simply experience London by night. London is, of course, one of the great cities of the world, and we were making it our living textbook.

And then last weekend, called a “long weekend” and dedicated to education through travel, about fifty of us went to Paris on the College-sponsored trip, while others went on their own to Stockholm, Rome, Venice, Florence, Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, Arnhem, Sorrento, Athens, Switzerland, Dublin, Barcelona, Madrid, Vienna, Prague, Scotland, Budapest, Portsmouth, Caen, and Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

Why is travel so much a part of the Harlaxton Experience? Because we learn by those experiences, as young Europeans did from the 17^th through the 19^th centuries on the “Grand Tour”—it was a major part of their education. What’s more, at Harlaxton we link these travels to our studies by briefings, references, assignments, and reports. It may be Nursing students at Queen’s Medical Centre, or Engineering students at Isaac Newton’s home, or Biology students at Cambridge’s Cavendish Museum, or drama and literature students in Stratford.

But where ever it is, it is Learning: All Together, and Learning all the time—in every quiet week at Harlaxton College, where all the faculty are brilliant, all the students are above average, and the energy never stops.

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