Christian Schiller

Louis Christian Schiller CBE MC (20 September 1895, in New Barnet, London – 11 February 1976, Kenton, London), known as Christian Schiller, was HM Inspector of Schools in the United Kingdom and a promoter of progressive ideas in primary education.

Schiller was educated at Tyttenhanger Lodge Preparatory School near St. Albans and then at Gresham's School, Holt, from 1909 to 1914. He became head boy there, excelled at sprinting and won a mathematics scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. His education was interrupted by World War I, after which he took up his place at Cambridge University and briefly read Mathematics there from 1919 to 1920. He later studied for a Teachers Diploma at the London Day Training College (1923–1924).

Before Schiller's intended arrival at Cambridge, World War I broke out and he volunteered for the army. He was commissioned into the Lincolnshire Regiment and spent most of the war on active service. He took part in the Battle of Mons, and in 1917 after being wounded in action received the Military Cross.

Leaving Cambridge without a degree, between 1920 and 1923 Schiller taught Maths at the progressive Rendcomb School, a secondary school in Gloucestershire. He joined a committee of the Mathematical Association concerned with the teaching of Geometry. In 1924, after taking his Teacher's Diploma, he was appointed an Assistant Inspector of Schools by the Board of Education and began his career in its Whitehall offices.

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