Our Belief

Cambridge School believes in character-building and good citizenship

Cambridge School is a school that breeds good citizenship: built and run by thinkers who believe in secularism, and meant to nurture thinking students who reflect deeply on how they want to fashion a future world, and have the resolve to see their ideas through.

Cambridge School believes in character-building and good citizenship. The principle of ‘service before self’ is essential to building the qualities of empathy and community-consciousness. At Cambridge School, we believe excellence in learning and hard work must go hand-in-hand with humility and integrity… and that knowledge acquired from education is not merely for the cultivation of our sensibilities or a first step towards elevated employment, but must be used in the service of humanity.

Our Values

Integrity
Perseverance
Empathy
Excellence
Courage

Community mindedness

In keeping with the school’s motto ‘We Learn to Serve’ Cambridge School develops students who use their education, skills and resources for the benefit of the entire community and not just for their own well-being.

Our students are encouraged to be concerned about other people, willing to listen and help in time of need, and behave with genuine, good manners and respect, irrespective of social hierarchies. Community mindedness also extends to civic sense and care of public property.

Rationality and clarity of thought

The ability to think clearly is a critical skill. It enables us to cut through confusing and seemingly contradictory factors and have truly insightful and independent views.

Clear, rational thinking is the foundation of effective communication. Clarity of thought leads to clarity of communication and gets to the heart of the matter with elegance and simplicity. It is an essential leadership skill.

Global Outlook

Cambridge School students are expected to be respectful of diversity, comfortable in it, and even enjoy it.

We want our students to experience and realize that underlying all diversity are the universal values of humanity – common to all nations and communities.

Commitment to environmental sustainability, concern for nature and other forms of life

Human beings tend to forget that the planet they inhabit is home to other species as well, and that their claim on the earth is as valid as ours. Being perhaps the most intelligent species, we must show our intelligence not only in technological progress but also in learning to cooperate to preserve the planet and its many forms of life. The earth and its environment is under unprecedented stress. Without a commitment to a much more sustainable lifestyle, our own survival as a species is at stake. Cambridge School students will, we believe, become leaders and members of pressure groups to save us from this existential crisis.