ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book offers a series of provocations, challenges and important discussions focusing on some of the key issues for independent educators around the world in the twenty-first century. Independent schools may be free from the often suffocating restrictions of government curricula but they are preparing children for government assessments which largely dictate the next stage in a student’s educational journey. Independent schools are built on hope, dynamism and innovation as well as tradition, convention and centuries of experience. The great freedom which independent schools have to design their own routes to knowledge and understanding and steer their own paths through learning, also means unprecedented potential to play, to explore, to innovate. One key area of innovation has been the independent sector’s expansion overseas.
