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- Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:56 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Julian Capper latest position
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22806
Egregious
Ok Daffy I am grateful to you for telling me the popular meaning of 'egregious' today and therefore my completely unintended derogation of Mr Capper. I will be more circumspect (from the latin....etc) in future. However, it was Samuel Johnson who memorably said: 'The antiquity of an error is no just...
- Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:12 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Julian Capper latest position
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22806
- Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:40 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Julian Capper latest position
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22806
The Cappers
I got to know Capper quite well when he was teaching my son at A-level a decade ago. The highest recommendation I can give is that his independent stance enabled him to be both an excellent teacher and an egregious pastor, unfailingly concerned for my son’s welfare and never bogged down in SES-spe...
- Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:22 am
- Forum: The North American schools
- Topic: Tracing the money trail
- Replies: 67
- Views: 117421
In relation to the discussion in the How well does the SES live up to its own aims? string a while ago HoHumBug wrote in this string: From what I can see the London SES, even excluding all the UK branches, has achieved very big property gains. Since it started buying, restoring and selling propertie...
- Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:52 am
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: How well does SES live up to its own aims?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 33945
Stanton wrote: Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject: I would agree, Bonsai, that the School could be a lot clearer about its aims but I don't recognise that it is self-serving. If it was I wouldn't be interested. If it was, there would be no Art in Action. Do not the demonstrators feel look...
- Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:41 pm
- Forum: The North American schools
- Topic: Tracing the money trail
- Replies: 67
- Views: 117421
Modesty
Frodo,
I must be missing something. What's modest about choosing the central heroic character around whom the whole story revolves?
Kind regards,
Gandalf
(AKA modest shadowy peripheral figure with a few good lines - well OK quite a few according to some)
I must be missing something. What's modest about choosing the central heroic character around whom the whole story revolves?
Kind regards,
Gandalf
(AKA modest shadowy peripheral figure with a few good lines - well OK quite a few according to some)
- Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:30 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Thank you Bella!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 34751
Shopping
Frodo, You can't refuse to 'buy' what I am not selling. I am merely reporting what happened a few years ago in my presence in the sitting room of the suite at Waterperry (for the avoidance of doubt that's the room on the NW corner of the first floor of the main house with the sherry decanters and th...
- Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:17 pm
- Forum: The North American schools
- Topic: Tracing the money trail
- Replies: 67
- Views: 117421
Whence helicopters?
Dear Frodo, Nice to hear from you after all this time. Is it really you? I hope you enjoyed New Zealand. No need for helicopters when astral travel is available. Am I missing something? Where did Ross fly helicopters into the conversation - or is it just a flight of fancy on your part? Kind regards,...
- Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:14 am
- Forum: The North American schools
- Topic: Tracing the money trail
- Replies: 67
- Views: 117421
Weasel Waterperry Words
At the heart of the SES structure is a weasel double standard. When it suits for promotional or propaganda purposes or when London decrees the SES presents itself as a single centrist global organisation. But as soon as there is any kind of problem or legal issue the schools instanstaneously morph ...
- Sat Jul 02, 2005 10:15 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Thank you Bella!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 34751
Ah to be in a young school!.....
Dear Bella, you are clearly having a whale of a time with your mates down in Brisbane and good luck to you, sport. Your staunch and touchingly naive defence of the good things in the 'teaching' reminds me of a devout Catholic disciple in a remote Brazilian village in the 1980's loudly protesting the...
- Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:10 am
- Forum: The North American schools
- Topic: Tracing the money trail
- Replies: 67
- Views: 117421
SES fees and property costs
There is loads of Irish fundraising going on but nothing as crude as a Scientology style fees ratcheted to seniority which you ask about. This would contradict the one (perhaps the only) principle the SES schools have so far not abrogated in their actions:namely that ?knowledge? should be given free...
- Sun Jun 26, 2005 10:15 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: St James and SES: genesis of the relationship
- Replies: 14
- Views: 22761
The 'E' in SES.
The ?E? in SES The Economics ?faculty? as it is humorously referred to (since it is virtually comatose and insentient) epitomises the hopelessly muddled and quietly hypocritical nature of the SES today. Its intellectual and ethical roots promulgated by its founder, Andrew MacLaren, are in economic ...
- Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:13 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: EXPERIENCES AT ST. VEDAST (now St. James) AND THE S.E.S
- Replies: 604
- Views: 904861
Foundation groups
Matthew,
The substantive issue is that the exploitation of St James as a recruitment ground for new blood is clearly still very much ?policy? and this must get into the Inquiry.
In your meetings with them have you ever had the opportunity to question Boddy/Hyde on this policy?
Kind regards
The substantive issue is that the exploitation of St James as a recruitment ground for new blood is clearly still very much ?policy? and this must get into the Inquiry.
In your meetings with them have you ever had the opportunity to question Boddy/Hyde on this policy?
Kind regards
- Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:55 pm
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: SES schools worldwide
- Replies: 74
- Views: 127967
Boston
NYC
Yes, Dr. Lehmann does know about this site
Yes, Dr. Lehmann does know about this site
- Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:07 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Terms of Reference for all to see!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 57104
money money money
I think this important topic would be best explored on SES schools worldwide string so I will post something there. Yes, Sinclair was the invisible 'third man' in S&S and creator of many of Thatchers adverts in the 80's. He made one bad purchase (of a New York agency which ripped them off someth...