Keystone Magazine Learning the Keystone Way 2015-2016 EN | Page 3

Foreword
one way.
many paths.
W
hen you read this illuminating and inspiring book, and gaze at the stunning art, graphics, and
photographs, you will notice that there is something in its title that becomes odd the further
you adventure into the book. This oddity is simple. There is in fact no one way of learning
at Keystone. Instead, there is a plurality of ways. The Keystone way is a road with multiple paths leading
into and out of it. We create ways.
There are many reasons for this. One is that we deliberately bring together modes of learning and
methods of teaching from our chosen three great traditions: the Chinese or Eastern, the American or
Western, and the International. We should expect, therefore, to encourage techniques and styles from all
three, past and present, even anticipating and generating the future.
Another is that our teachers come from these three different backgrounds, and sometimes from different
strands within the same background. This adds to the richness and variety that are exemplified in this
book.
But perhaps the most important reason is that we emphasize creativity and innovation at Keystone, in our
students and teachers. This means that we shall always be restless to explore, and to invent new ways of
schooling and being schooled. This is so very exciting. I feel this excitement every morning when I cross
from my apartment to our academic buildings. I see it in the faces of our children when they come in the
school gate. And it is here, yes right here, in these ways of learning.
Read them, revel in them, cherish them.
Malcolm McKenzie