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The four pillars

Tradition, Honor, Discipline, Excellence: 
these are the four pillars of Welton Academy. 
The key to success for the students from Welton Academy rests on these four pillars. They also have to become the cornerstones of the student's lifes. If you want to have a great future, you have to follow these pillars. But why? Why are these words so important? 
That´s because of that, what they represent. Each pillar has its own personal meaning. 


Tradition represents the love of school, country and family. The tradition of Welton Academy is of course to be the best. 
Honor represents dignity and the fulfillment of duty.
Discipline represents respect for parents, teachers and headmasters. Discipline comes from within.
Excellence represents the results of hard work. It´s the key to all success, in school and everywhere. 

The kids are taught that they only can be successful in live when they follow these important rules. They are called pillars because the whole school system is built upon these rules and if anybody wouldn´t follow and respect them, the whole very difficult system would just collapse. 

I like the idea behind these four pillars. Every person in this world has to follow some rules, otherwise, our system would collapse too. So it isn´t anything wrong in following important school rules. Tradition, Honor, Discipline and Excellence are strong words, which represent good things not only in school. Maybe they seem to be a little bit strict, but in the end, they are just the main things, you have to be careful with, to get along well with each other. 

If you compare our schools "Leitbild" with these pillars, they seem to be very strict and hard, because we actually don´t have something like these pillars. 
Of course, we have rules, every student has to follow, but we don´t have ceremonies, where you honour these rules. But I also have to say, that we don´t have rules like the students from Welton Academy have. Maybe because these rules are just important and everybody knows, that they exist and it´s just natural for us to follow the rules, although in a bit less exaggerated way.



Four pillars

Standing tall and proud
Foundation of human backbone
To live life to the fullest

Strength of iron within us
Giving us the courage
To withstand the storms hitting grounds
We walk on in everyday life












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