I've had the privilege to witness this kind of excellence up close with many of my teachers, mentors and friends, not least of all in the Tibetan communities where I lived and studied for over two decades as a scholar of Buddhism.
Headmaster Stephen Morris said: "We have recently announced ambitious development plans for the school, including the provision of a sixth form, and we look forward to sustaining academic excellence up to the age of 18 in due course".
Clinton was indeed the integrity-challenged politician par excellence: tearing up over an anecdote at one moment, strong-arming corporate donors the next.
This "revert back" is a reference to supposed "production centres of excellence" set up by what was then Northcliffe (now Local World) in its Hull, Nottingham and Plymouth centres in 2009 with scores of job losses.
The National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) is one of five centres of excellence set up by the North East's regional development agency, One NorthEast.
His excellence Sunday made up for his teammates' rather quiet afternoon at the plate.
Bacharach interpreter par excellence Dionne Warwick turns up, while Ronan Keating sings something nasty, most likely while wearing a brown leather jacket.
A national quality campaign, Advancing Excellence, has signed up more than 7,100 nursing homes to work on measurably improving care in eight goal areas.
But when I was a young adult trying to create a television show about the messy business of femininity, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" became a master class, the kind of viewing that made you both want to strive for the show's level of excellence and give up because they'd nailed the algorithm.
More than that, Lansdown wants to establish the city as a centre of sporting excellence having set up the Bristol Sports group, which includes Bristol City FC, who have been promoted to the Championship, the Bristol Flyers basketball team and an academy women's football team.
Robert Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School, where he is co-director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization, cofounder of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and a cofounder and active member of the new "d.school". His new book, with Huggy Rao, is Scaling Up Excellence: Getting To More Without Settling For Less.
