Clarissa Farr was the High Mistress of St Paul’s Girls’ School, one of the country’s top academic schools, for eleven years.

An expert in education and leadership, a non-executive director and a writer, Clarissa pulls together everything she has learned during her extraordinary leadership career in her book, The Making of Her: Why School Matters, and discusses it here with her editor, Arabella PIke.

In this episode she tackles what the challenges facing students and their teachers are today, how we can educate girls to become tomorrow’s leaders, and what the role of a school in a modern, virtual world should be.

"The girls at a girl's school don't have any sense that Maths and Science are meant to be harder, they don't have any sense that they can't be cast in any part in a play [...] so when those girls, with all that strength, go out into that co-educational world, they're fortified with that belief in themselves, that certainty that what they have to say is interesting, and that they don't have to wait until all of the men in the room have spoken first. And that is how a girl's school has a very forward thinking role to play in society."

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