Moraitis School

 

 

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The Moraitis School has been at the forefront of education in Greece for over sixty years. Founded in 1936 by the mathematician Charles Beregean under the name “Protipo Likio Athinon” (Athens Model Lyceum), the school was originally housed in a neoclassical building near central Athens and in its first academic year it had 77 students and 11 teachers. In 1952, the operating licence of the Athens Model Lyceum was transferred to the philologist Antonis Moraitis, at the time its co-director, and the school was relocated to a mansion in the Athens suburb of Psihico. Since then, the premises of the school have been repeatedly expanded. In 1978 the school’s official name was changed to “Scholi Moraiti” (The Moraitis School). It is the vision of both Charles Beregean and Antonis Moraitis which gave shape to the educational principles of the school as expressed in The Dodecalogue.

 On the death of their father in 1981, his two daughters, Chrysanthi Moraiti-Kartali, a psychologist, and Katerina Moraiti-Kassimati, an applied linguist, continued in the spirit established by their predecessors. Sadly, in September 1996, Katerina Moraiti-Kassimati passed away at the age of forty following a long illness. She will be remembered as having contributed in decisive ways to the modernization of the school through her active participation in the introduction of new subjects and activities, as well as in the adoption of new teaching practices. The primary school, in particular, bears the stamp of her personality.

Since Katerina’s death, Chrysanthi Moraiti-Kartali has had the responsibility of running the school