ISBN10: 1865085766, ISBN13: 9781865085760, [publisher: Allen & Unwin] Hardcover First Edition Red boards with minor edgewear and bumped spine ends and corners. Jacket has light edgewear and creasing, a small tear, and crimping at spine ends/corners; flaps not clipped. Binding sound, text clean. B/w photos. Disc not included (clear pocket at rear is empty). No previous owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library.
[Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]

ISBN10: 1865085766, ISBN13: 9781865085760, [publisher: Allen & Unwin] Hardcover Scotch College, Melbourne, is remarkable for having reached the age of 150 years (Melbourne itself is not much older) and has commissioned this history in celebration. For those associated with the school, the anniversary is reason enough for a history. Other readers, too, will dip into these pages out of a curiosity about the prominent role Scotch has played in the wider Australian community. In Who's Who in Australia and The Australian Dictionary of Biography, for example, entries about Scotch Old Boys outnumber those about ex-students from any other school except Sydney Grammar. Rather than chronicle the public achievements of its almumni, however, A Deepening Roar concentrates primarily on the school's inner life. It breathes with the lived experience of the school through the perspective of its pupils, teachers and leaders. And so, rather than merely singing the school's praises, it touches upon good and bad, triumphs and stumbles, hopes and fears, all woven into a rich story of that vital enterprise, the education of the young. When asked to explain its success and its longevity, Scotch tends to reply out of its own myths, alluding to, among other things: Christian education, character, the staff, school spirit, the Old Boys, or the principals. Such replies, however, extol the school more than they explain it. Other factors in its success were ...