What makes a great school?

Before we can determine what makes a great school, we must first agree on our definition. Success in examination results is clearly one indicator, but is not the only one. The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines education as the giving of intellectual, moral and social instruction. Perhaps G. K. Chesterton put it more attractively when he wrote ‘Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.’ ¹ Or, we could put it more simply: good schools produce good citizens.