Paving the Way to Success When we were kids, education was easier – it was based on geography and legacy. Draw a radius around your home, and whatever school falls within is yours. And maybe it was your parents’ and theirs, and theirs. It’s how we met our friends, made lifelong connections, and lay the […]
Walden International School – 2019/20 Private School Guide
Walden International School 2035 Upper Middle Road East, Oakville, ON Henry David Thoreau’s seminal text Walden; or, Life in the Woods inspired the name of Walden International School. He once wrote: “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with […]
Appleby College: 2019/20 Private School Guide
Appleby College 540 Lakeshore Road West, Oakville, ON For over a century, Appleby College has been challenging its students to become leaders of character and major contributors to their local, national and global communities. Appleby’s focus is on educating the whole student by combining a rigorous academic programme with extensive experiential and extracurricular opportunities that […]
St. Mildred’s Lightbourn School
St. Mildred’s Lightbourn School: Inspired Girls, Empowered Women In choosing the right school for our daughters, we must weigh hefty concerns – and no longer are those concerns limited to locale or dictated by established practices or pedagogy. We live in the harsh yet exciting realities of a competitive global culture, and it is imperative […]
MacLachlan College
MacLachlan College: Where Tradition and Vision Meet The contemporary realities of 21st century parenting can sometimes be daunting. Not only do we aspire to raise our kids to be good people, we want to give them every opportunity to establish and cultivate lives of their own, to one day have the foundational advantage to promise […]
Linbrook School
Linbrook School: Engage, Inspire, Achieve Boys will be boys—an idiom whose definition has changed and evolved as what it means to be a man has changed and evolved. As parents, the question we’re left with in these challenging times is: How do we best facilitate the inspired journey from boyhood to manhood? This is the […]