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‘We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.  The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.’   E.O. Wilson, American Biologist

We love to rank things – to sort events, services, and people using subjective and often arbitrary measures.  There is no better example of this than the rankings of US college basketball teams as they gear up for, and compete in, the national championship tournament each March.

We have reached the time in the academic year where our grade 10 students begin to select their courses for next academic year, and for many, this means deciding on what DP courses to select. It is at this time that students and families make course decisions with university programmes and career options in mind and which often results in dropping any type of Arts course.

Twelve students from the IST MUN program recently traveled to The Hague, Netherlands from the 20th to the 27th of January to participate in the 55th annual 4-day THIMUN conference, which drew over 3,200 delegates from all over the world.