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Leading, listening and location: The MacJannets’ radical educational experiment

11/18/2018

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By George Halsey

Just what was it about Donald and Charlotte MacJannet that made them so special?

Alumni and friends of the MacJannets’ various programs, like me, have wrestled with this knotty philosophical question ever since Donald MacJannet died in 1986 at the age of 92, and even more so since Charlotte died in 1999 at the age of 98.
​To many, the MacJannets were primarily concerned about the cause of international good will—first between Americans and the French (beginning in the 1920s through their school outside Paris and their camp at Talloires), later between American and Europeans (through their international exchange programs) and ultimately among peoples throughout the globe (through international conferences at the Prieuré as well as today’s MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship).

International relations was of course important to the MacJannets. But then, that subject is important to many other people as well. How were the MacJannets different?

In my own view of the MacJannet ideals, international goodwill was a by-product rather than the centerpiece of their vision. Above all, I believe, the MacJannets had unique ideas about the ingredients of a great education.

Today’s MacJannet Traveling Fellows programs— oriented around the Prieuré in Talloires— essentially continues the key elements of the MacJannet educational design: a welcoming atmosphere; a sense of nature’s enchantment; the opportunity to take risks in cultivating the individual’s potential; and the chance to become bi-lingual and cross-cultural.what Rousseau saw as his natural goodness while participating in an inevitably corrupt society.

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