The New Yorker's amazing cover

The first-ever animated-GIF magazine’s cover is a reality. The weekly magazine “The New Yorker” has on its cover Christoph Niemann’s Rainy Day.

"When I arrived in New York for the first time, it was pouring,” the German artist Christoph Niemann says. “Maybe that’s why, to my mind, there’s no place on earth where being stuck in traffic on a rainy day is more beautiful.”

The New Yorker magazine

National Theatre Live

National Theatre Live
Tennessee Williams:
A Streetcar Named Desire

16 September 2014 - 21:00

16 SEPTEMBER 201400

NT Live

Live transmission from the Young Vic

In collaboration with the British Embassy & the British Council in Athens

-Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
With Greek subtitles

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. Visionary director Benedict Andrews returns to the Young Vic following his Critics’ Circle Award-winning Three Sisters.

With Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The Fall) as Blanche DuBois, Ben Foster (Lone Survivor, Kill Your Darlings) as Stanley and Vanessa Kirby (BBC’s Great Expectations, Three Sisters at the Young Vic) as Stella.

Director: Benedict Andrews
Designer: Magda Willi
Costumes: Victoria Behr
Lighting Designer: Jon Clark
Music: Alex Baranowski

Cast: Clare Burt, Lachele Carl, Branwell Donaghey, Otto Farrant,
Nicholas Gecks, Troy Glasgow, Stephanie Jacob, Corey Johnson, Claire Prempeh

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Registration for October 2014 courses

Registration for the foreign language courses has started!

Registration for the new school year (October 2014-May 2015) starts on Monday, 1st September at LS Parnassos School premises, Themistokleous & Katakouzinou 2, near Kaningos Square, evening hours (17:00-21:00). There are offered classes in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish language for only 300 euros per year! Also, there is our Art class where you can take painting lessons just for 200 euros per year!

If you want to join and learn along with us, you have to fill in a registration form and pay the fees before classes begin. Because there are limited places available we operate on a first come – first serve basis, so make sure that you apply asap!

For more information you can call 2103804853 or 2103821507.

One more thing! If you plan to take a course in English language but you are not very sure about your level, you could attempt a placement test in order to get an idea about the class you should enrol in.

Just click on the link below and follow the instructions.

English Language Level Test

It won’t take more than few minutes!

Robin Williams on Greece

“I have been to all the islands,,, facing some ancient sites I thought to myself: I cannot believe that here is recounted everything we read in Greek mythology. Greek history is something all mankind must bow to. Maybe your economy goes to hell, but that does not mean you’re helpless. Economic data is constantly changing in Europe and America for all. What is not changing is the legacy, your identity. The Parthenon does not leave Athens. It’s there to remind all that progress and prosperity may return.  I am now in England, for example, I have gone nowhere. I am here to promote a movie and will leave. What’s there to see, Buchingham Palace? I don’t care. As when I go to Germany, I am not interested in the Berlin Wall, which is not a symbol of prosperity, but the opposite. However, one cannot ignore Delos, the Parthenon and Mycenae!”

Robin Williams on Greece, during an interview to George Satsidis in London (December 2011)

100% Success in the Exams

Congratulations to all our students of the Proficiency class on their success in Michigan Proficiency Exams and the kpg exams! This year we have an extra reason to celebrate because it is a 100% success. 9 out of 9 candidates passed successfully their ECPE exams and 4 out of 4 candidates succeeded in the state certificate exams (C level). Also - a late addition - one more successful candidate passed his ALCE exams!

Well Done!!! Kudos to all of you!!!

κπγ - May exam Results

It has just been announced by the Ministry of Education that the results of the May 2014 exams are available online. In order to access your results you will need to record your own candidate number (written on your candidate card) and the first 3 letters of your surname!

You can check your results here.

Good Luck!!!!

Schooling

Horace Mann is considered the father of democratic schooling. He believed that schools should be provided by the state for the purpose of educating a collective democratic citizenry. From the "Twelfth Annual Report of Horace Mann as Secretary of Massachusetts State Board of Education," Mann (1848) wrote:

Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization. [...] [Education] gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. The spread of education, by enlarging the cultivated class or caste, will open a wider area over which the social feelings will expand; and, if this education should be universal and complete, it would do more than all things else to obliterate factitious distinctions in society. (p. 3) 

Though these words were written back in 1848, they sound more contemporary than ever; a warning or a reminder of our responsibilities towards future generations.