It all began in 1959 with a plucky Brit, a wordsmith, some say peot, definitely a man on a mission to teach the world how to understand, read, write but above all how to speak English with above average quickness, Mr Robin Callan.
That year, after having taught English in Italy with traditional methods, Mr Callan said to himself and, I assume, pretty much to everyone he knew: ‘There must be a better way!’ Inspired by revolutionary developments in the social sciences he opened the Callan School in London, which soon after became the largest English Teaching Private school in town.