Many boarding schools are considered the ideal training ground for future leaders and managers, successors and entrepreneurs. As a door opener to the top universities in the world. “Most families come to us because they struggle with the traditional education system and because they want to offer their children an advantage,” says Janka Zöller, who advises parents on choosing a boarding school and runs the “Sons & Daughters” advisory service for this purpose . Many of her customers are entrepreneurs and “would like to have the prospect of a degree that would enable their children to study abroad,” as Zöller says. The parents wanted to “open as many doors as possible” for boarding school children.
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And many doors ultimately lead back into the family business. “Many boarding schools advertise that they want to optimally prepare children for succession. “They want to awaken the children’s entrepreneurial spirit,” says Zöller. With special business courses, projects with local companies, lectures from successful entrepreneurs who previously attended the boarding school themselves.