No Other by Mary K. Shanley Meditators in Fairfield are finding academic success by breaking out of the mold cast by other Iowa schools. A visitor to the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment finds plenty of differences but also finds that kids will always be kids.
Cars pull slowly up to the curb, one following another in a familiar morning ritual.
Doors open and youngsters spill out waving good-bye to their drivers, chattering with one another, rearranging books and backpacks as they head up the hill to class. It's how school days begin all across Iowa. But this is one of two private schools in Fairfield, and that's where the similarity ends. The School is an outgrowth of Maharishi University of Management, located just north of this three-building complex. Both the School and University are run by people who practice Transcendental Meditation.