George Heriot's School

Yeah

... across in the school, Heriot's School.

She was like, "Look, I'm getting a lot of background noise." She was like, "Can you come into the mausoleum?" I was like, "Ugh, oh, fuck, well, whatever." So I was there talking to her, and I just went in just past the gate, and my...

I had my jacket on.

They have an open day for the whole school on Saturday, the 26th of September.

So let's find out from Gareth why Heriot's should be on your open day list.

Hello, Gareth.

Thanks for joining the podcast.

It's a pleasure to be here.

So I've now been living in Scotland for the last 22 years with my family, so the wife and three children.

And yes, we moved down to Edinburgh about five, six years ago to take up the position of the principal of George Heriot School.

But before that, you know, go back to the origins.

Is it right to do so much to reclaim the heathen abroad and refuse the only means of reclaiming our heathen children at home? Is it right that Christians should spend in one year as much money in sumptuous entertainments as would supply the wants and cultivate and Christianize the mind of many a poor forlorn child among us? Is it right that many who are unworthy should be allowed to beg and that those worthy objects of charity should be driven to beg? If each child at this school will not cost more than some three or four pounds per year, are there not thousands in Edinburgh who could each maintain a child and never miss the cost? Would not the thought of good you did be the purest pleasure? Since all other means have failed to reach the very lowest class, to lessen or arrest the deepening stream of evil, is not this scheme well worth the trial? If so, would it be right for us to stand idly by and give no help, lend no hand? If not, is there any right reason why you should wait till others move? Appendix 2 Extracts from a letter of Mr.

Smith, Governor of the Edinburgh Prison, to the Governor of Heriot's Hospital, dated 28th October 1845 But besides the children of parents in narrow or reduced circumstances who yet enjoy the benefit of these institutions attending to Heriot's schools, there is a great and increasing number of miserable little outcasts of both sexes who of necessity live partly by begging and partly by stealing and whom the schools of that noble charity do not reach.

These houseless children of want are growing up in ignorance, misery and vice.

Moral restraint, even in its weakest form, is entirely unknown and unfelt by them.

Is it right to do so much to reclaim the heathen abroad and refuse the only means of reclaiming our heathen children at home? Is it right that Christians should spend in one year as much money in sumptuous entertainments as would supply the wants and cultivate and Christianize the mind of many a poor forlorn child among us? Is it right that many who are unworthy should be allowed to beg, and that those worthy objects of charity should be driven to beg? If each child at this school will not cost more than some three or four pounds per year, are there not thousands in Edinburgh who could each maintain a child and never miss the cost? Would not the thought of good you did be the purest pleasure? Since all other means have failed to reach the very lowest class, to lessen or arrest the deepening stream of evil, is not this scheme well worth the trial? If so, would it be right for us to stand idly by and give no help, lend no hand? If not, is there any right reason why you should wait till others move? Appendix 2 Extracts from a letter of Mr.

Smith, Governor of the Edinburgh Prison, to the Governor of Heriot's Hospital, dated 28th October 1845.

But besides the children of parents in narrow or reduced circumstances, who yet enjoy the benefit of these institutions, attending to Heriot's schools, there is a great and increasing number of miserable little outcasts of both sexes, who of necessity live partly by begging and partly by stealing, and whom the schools of that noble charity do not reach.

These houseless children of want are growing up in ignorance, misery and vice.