Aug 7, 2026 – 9.00amThe first time one of Australia’s most successful educators, Elizabeth Stone, walked through Winchester College’s medieval stone facade, she felt the magic straight away. One of Britain’s oldest schools, Winchester was established close to four centuries before Captain Cook sailed into Botany Bay.“I had no idea that a school like Winchester could exist. The ambition of the intellectual and cultural life, the freedom, the sense of community, the sheer beauty of the environment ... it was a cross between Oxford University and Hogwarts,” Stone says of her first period teaching there from 2008 to 2011.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Andrew TillettEurope correspondentAndrew Tillett is The Australian Financial Review’s correspondent for Europe, based in London. He was formerly foreign affairs and defence correspondent based in Canberra.Fetching latest articles
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