Maurice Tièche was born in 1895. His academic career took him from the Sorbonne to the Institute of Educational Sciences in Geneva, and from there to Collonges-sous-Salève where he became professor of literature and philosophy at the Adventist Seminary of Salève from 1931 to 1949. He taught literature, psychology and philosophy. At the same time he pursued research with Piaget and Brantmey at the Institute of Educational Sciences in Geneva.
Passionate about education, he could not help but notice that this Seminar, where he teaches, is cruelly lacking in a structure that allows for quality education for children starting at a very young age. A structure in which particular care would be taken, certainly in the transmission of knowledge and know-how, but also of interpersonal skills.
His project came to fruition in 1936 with the opening of a primary school that welcomed some fifteen students in the autumn of 1936.
He passed away in 1959, while in the meantime his project had developed into a secondary school and a high school which, since 1953, has been preparing students for the baccalauréat.
His holistic vision of the child and adolescent is still present today. An approach that does not only concern itself with the intellectual development of the students but also with their physical, social and spiritual development.
