Education
He studied at the Archbishop"s Seminary and Street Michael"s Training College for Teachers.
headmaster scriptwriter writer poet
He studied at the Archbishop"s Seminary and Street Michael"s Training College for Teachers.
In 1950 Aquilina started his teaching career in the Maltese Government Primary Schools till 1957 when he was appointed scriptwriter with the Department of Information - Education Broadcasting Section. In 1959 he was appointed Master of Maltese at The Lyceum. In 1978 he became assistant headmaster and in 1986 was appointed headmaster.
He retired in 1990.
Aquilina wrote various poems and essays, radio features and many educational broadcasts for school children. Other translation works: "Street Vincent de Paule"s Residence for the Elderly - The medico-social record", by Doctor Paul Cassar, Doctor of Medicine.BSc (Lond)., FRHist.S.(Lond)Doctor of Literature(Honorary Causa)(1994). "Il-ħobż Malti - Is-Sengħa tal-Furnar" by Monsieur Hubert Chiron (1994).
"A Guide to the Passion - 100 Questions About the Passion of The Christ" by the Directors of Catholic Exchange" (2004).
Company-Edited with Ġużè Diacono the revised edition of the English - Maltese Dictionary (5 volumes) by Dun Karm Psaila. (1991–1993). In 1992 he published a selection of his poems in one volume Aquilina died in Malta on 29 January 2009.