Maharishi curriculum includes the usual math, science, language arts, social studies. It also includes the unusual the Science of Creative Intelligence, a subject taught at all grade levels. It's the creative drive of nature to expand and grow. We can't know less tomorrow than we do today. Otherwise, students have no interest in learning about it.
Classes are quiet, orderly.
The older the students, the more focused they seem. The boys in Tom Fishback's fourth grade stand to answer questions. The teacher says that helps build students' ability to speak on their feet. Fishback finds that in an all-boys class, everyone feels free to respond to questions. A fifth grade girl responds to a visitor's question about gender-separate classes.