Claire Moodie, ABC News (AU): Teenagers are used to being told that they have to study hard to get ahead.
But one West Australian girls’ school is advocating another, less conventional route to success.
As well as stimulating the mind, Santa Maria College, on the banks of Perth’s Swan River, is teaching the importance of stilling the mind.
The school has been incorporating meditation into the timetable over the past 18 months to try to reduce exam stress and safeguard students’ mental health.
Senior school head Carol Bell said the regular meditation sessions aimed to give the girls the inner resources to cope with …