KURT HAHN AND THE HUMANIST TRADITION As relevant today as 50 years ago Published in the UWCSEA magazine Dunia 8th June 2017 Something interesting happens each year when my Grade 6 class are studying the history of Kurt Hahn and the United World College movement. Part of the learning intention is for the students to have a broad understanding of the key events that shaped this history: WWI, The Holocaust, WWII and the dropping of the two atomic bombs. And each year, somewhere in the middle of this learning, some version of this conversation happens: First student: “I think Japan needed more materials to make their army strong.” Second student: “But they shouldn’t have been invading other countries to get what they needed.” First student: “Well it’s kind of the same as what the European countries were doing through colonisation.” Second student: “True, and maybe that’s one of the things we need to know about war—that one group shouldn’t be taking things from another.” The conversation is...