LEARNING TO LIVE in boarding school

Hermann-Lietz boarding schools accompany students on the way to their own identities.

Supporting students while helping them along on their personal way to their own identity are the objectives of the three Hermann-Lietz boarding schools Bieberstein, Haubinda and Hohenwehrda. The first and foremost principle: Instead of uncritical learning by heart and reproduced fact knowledge, the Hermann-Lietz schools consider conveyance of knowledge and formation of character to be inseparably connected. With a unity of academic and moral education, tradition and modernity, the boarding schools mainly teach the children and teens one thing: Competence for living. Students mature into resilient, self-confident and relaxed persons with the ability of self-reflection and self-observation. The private schools give them not only theoretical knowledge, but also the option of recognising and testing their own strengths, talents and skills in comprehensive practical offers. This combination repeats the lesson contents, helps understand and remember and correctly apply them even later. Integrated thinking, responsible action, confidence and self-confidence, mental flexibility and the courage of actively designing the future – all of this is at the focus of the comprehensive school offer of the three Hermann-Lietz boarding schools.


 

Personal development at the boarding school

From the crafts skills of the pottery guild to the creative projects in stage design or drama group – there are hardly any limits to personal development. Learning stress, hasty memorisation of the lesson content from test to test and a lack of positive learning success are replaced by an environment in which not only theoretic knowledge, but also well-founded information on backgrounds, causes and effects, as well as economic and social interrelations are conveyed and improved in practical application. Language skills, for example, can be practiced in the scope of a stay abroad. At the same time, education to social commitment and taking responsibility for the good of the community are important basic pillars for the schools' principles. Lessons, education and life in the community at the Lietz schools are targeted at tolerance in the community and aligned with a humanitarian educational concept.