Teaching, learning and living together
”Forming personalities” – as an internationally oriented, state-approved, privately funded grammar school, that is our task and our claim. An educational vision for learning and training based on the 'Seven Laws of Salem' formulated by Kurt Hahn in 1930 must involve the person as a whole, because people are really formed only by what they themselves experience.
Striving after the traditional Salem virtues of love of truth, courage and responsibility makes teaching, learning and living in our cosmopolitan community of pupils and teachers a full, enriching and individual experience. These values are lived daily in services to the community, positions of responsibility, craft guilds, artistic entertainments and sporting challenges.
We support our pupils and school-leavers on their personal path to academic success and a successful career with demanding lessons, efficient supervision of their learning, and the opportunity to take either the German Abitur or the International Baccalaureate as their final examination.
By taking part in the decision-making and shaping processes in the school and living quarters, the Salem pupils experience and understand democratic behaviour as a natural part of everyday life. They learn to treat themselves, other people and the environment responsibly.
All this contributes to their being able to develop into strong, independent, free-thinking individuals.
Read here what these things mean in concrete terms for the structure and organisation of the school, and how life in the boarding school is shaped by them.
