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What a gift it is, to be able to make a difference
A Scottish heritage…
New Zealand offered Scots migrants the opportunity to shape a new society. The founders of Scots College, James Gibb and John Aitken, epitomised the values that marked Scottish migrants out as a group: the cultural belief in education and equal opportunity for all, and a sense of personal and social responsibility.
Armed with these values, Scottish migrants set about establishing in their new country the educational and scientific institutions that they had valued in the old. They focused their work ethic and commercial skills on the task of building profitable businesses and a solid infrastructure for the fast-developing country. Like many great educational institutions in Scotland, Scots College was also founded through philanthropy. John Aitken’s donation provided the greater part of the initial capital required to establish the College.
The College as we know it today is true to the values it was founded upon. The culture of an all-round education and the need for philanthropy to further opportunities remain.
Fees maintain what the College currently provides. Through donating to the ‘Building The All-Round Man’ campaign you are supporting the vision of the College and enabling us to deliver this now and for the future.
"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."
Albert Einstein
"How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. No one has ever become poor by giving."
Anne Frank
I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
Benjamin Franklin
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"If you want to change the world, be that change."
Mohandas Gandhi
"Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind"
Henry David Thoreau