page_title: Ecole d'Humanité
section_title: Cognia and SSA
hierarchical_section_title: Ecole d'Humanité / Accreditation / Cognia and SSA
caption_attribution_description: English: Boarding school in Switzerland Ecole.
context_page_description: The Ecole d'Humanité is an international boarding school, located in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. It was founded in 1934 by Paul Geheeb and his wife Edith Geheeb Cassirer. In 1910, Geheeb had founded a similar school, the Odenwaldschule, in his native Germany, but he fled to Switzerland to found the new school after the NSDAP came to power.
  The Ecole d'Humanité was first located in Versoix, Geneva before Geheeb moved it to its present location on the Hasliberg in 1946. The school places a heavy emphasis on ending academic classes by noon and dedicating the afternoons to leisure pursuits with the heaviest emphasis on hiking and skiing. In 1956, Natalie Lüthi-Peterson, an American academic and a protege of Geheeb, took charge of the Ecole's American Program, allowing students to prepare for exams needed for entry into elite American and British universities while studying in Switzerland. Following the death of Paul Geheeb in 1961, directorship of the school passed to Natalie and her Swiss husband Armin Lüthi, together they oversaw operations at the school until 1993.
context_section_description: Along with the SFPS, the Ecole D' Humanité is also certified by Cognia, a high-ranking international school accreditor which offers its services to other renowned Swiss boarding schools such as Institut auf dem Rosenberg and Surval Montreux. The school also has Swiss permits to conduct extreme sports and expeditions from SSA.
caption: The Ecole campus in summer, nestled beneath the Eiger
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