Triquetra Education: Teaching and Support

And so A-Levels complete! We are proud to announce that once again we have achieved a 100% high pass rate, with every single student who received tuition through Triquetra gaining offers to their first choice universities.

Sending congratulations as well to all those globally who received A Level results last week, whatever they may have been and whatever plans you have. The perseverance and resilience required to sit A Level examinations is immense, and getting through the two years is no small feat! Wishing everyone every joy and success in the next part of the adventure (which is likely to be even more fun than A Levels - as if that were possible!).

Light, geometry, architecture, memory, and poetry all meet in this one image taken in a restaurant in Bangsar.

It reminds me of the T.S. Eliot poem 'Little Gidding' (on the image) (and maybe even a little Dante: 'And then we came forth to see again the stars' (Inferno # # )!)

Kavita Bhupta Ghosh reads like the classics. One day, I have no doubt, she will be. For now, she stands on the shoulders of the classical thinkers.

Aristotle argued that education is not simply the acquisition of information, but the cultivation of character and intellectual virtue over time. Learning is a process of becoming, he thought, not a single moment of arrival.

A different but complementary strand of classical thought emerges in the Stoic philosophers, particularly Epictetus and Seneca, who reminded their students that setbacks do not define a person’s worth. What matters is the response to the setback: whether we learn, adapt, and continue the pursuit of wisdom.

Socrates, too, warned against the illusion of final knowledge. The Socratic tradition suggests that the more we understand, the more aware we become of how much remains to be explored. Achievement is therefore not a conclusion, but an invitation to further growth.

And now we have Ghosh, combining, reframing, and developing these ideas about education in a profoundly classical way. She shifts the focus away from a single grade or result and towards the lifelong development of judgment, resilience, curiosity, and self-knowledge.

The ancient world would not have seen education as a race to a certificate. It would have seen it as the ongoing formation of the person. On the one hand, it is therefore never complete; on the other, failure is never final (and perhaps not even entirely real)....

This has the marks of classical Vitruvius architectural principles all over it. Vitruvius was a Roman architect who argued that successful design should work in harmony with natural principles. That way of thinking has echoed through centuries of scientific and architectural development, with nature repeatedly serving as a source of inspiration for human innovation.

For example, in 1839 the French physicist Alexandre Edmond Becquerel discovered that light could produce an electrical current in a chemical system. More than a century later, in 1954, researchers at Bell Laboratories in the United States developed the first practical silicon solar cell, laying the foundation for modern solar power. Both of these breakthroughs were connected to the photovoltaic effect - the process by which certain materials convert sunlight into electricity.

The Supertrees harness this photovoltaic effect and express it through a structure that embodies biomimicry: learning from nature’s designs rather than attempting to impose entirely artificial solutions. Their branching form maximises surface area, supports vertical planting, and helps manage energy and environmental systems in ways inspired by living trees.

The Supertrees themselves may, at first glance, appear to be isolated futuristic imaginings, but they are rooted in discoveries that stretch back nearly two centuries. They are not the rejection of the past that they might initially seem; rather, they are firmly rooted within it even as they reach towards the future, an amalgamation of classical observation and modern technology.

Welcome to the season that gets you where you want to go!

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