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Scholarship is the inlellectual endeavour of iearning how to think A broad liberai education, within a learning environment that enlivens curiosity and nurtures in all students a love of learning, encourages girls to wrestle with ideas and reflect upon their own beliefs and prejudices Education must not only develop the skills of critical thinking, problem solving and deductive reasoning, it must also open our minds to creativity and possibility. As we move toward our 1.40th year, and the rntroduction of Year 7, Girls Grammar continues to balance the traditrons of critical inquiry in pursutt of trulh wilh an appreciation and celebration of inspiring ideas and cultural achievement. Toge[her, they increase the capacity of Grammar girls to not only understand the world but also to shape it and contrrbute to it - with wisdom, imagination and integrity REFERENCES Claxton, G. (201,2) Virtues of uncertalnty. Aeon hIIp./laeon colmagaztne/ so crety/ guy- glaxlon- edu c at ion-morality- chara cler / McWrlliam, E (2013). Oueensland Press. Scott, S (2014). Education lMinister Christopher Pyne defends Latin class push. The C ourier Mail. http.//www. couriermail. com. aulnews/ queensland/education-minrster- christopher-pyne-defends-latin- class- push/story-fnrhsr f2- 1226961.867 597 Educating GIRLS. Austraha: Universtty of

and students in Years 7 and B will take Philosophy of Learningr, a subject designed to encourage a growth mindset and develop the ability to think. Frnding a balance between often competing views about the value and worth of subjects and learning experiences conlinues, and has been, a characteristic of our school since its beginning. Professor Guy Ciaxton reminds us that education is essentially a moral enterprise 'Whether overtly or covertly, every aspect of a school system is riddled with value judgments about what is worth knowing, and what krnds of young people we are trying to turn out' (Claxton, 2012). Our concept of a broad-based liberal education seeks to balance two important traditions: critical inquiry in pursuit of truth and an appreciation and celebration of inspiring ideas and cultural achievement The ability to think critically, to question and to not simply 'swallow undigested' the informalion before us is an important skill. We teach crilical literacy, visual literacy and media literacy, which is particularly important for girls to understand and deconstruct images and ideals of girls and women presented to them in modern society. Just as society is eternally evolvrng, so too will our concept of a liberal education continue to evolve, but it will always be founded unashamedly on our tradition of intellectual rigour and confrontrng new frontiers with confldence.