The purpose of Community School is to provide education of the highest quality for children of all racial, cultural, religious, and economic backgrounds based on a child-centered philosophy that is committed to teaching children in the ways they learn best. The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge, but to create possibilities for a child to invent and discover. When we teach too fast, we keep the child from inventing and discovering for himself.
Teaching means creating situations where structure can be discovered.
Students should be able to expand the depth and breadth of their knowledge to the fullest extent possible. Teaching should involve helping students to learn what they need or want to know when they are ready to learn, not when some outside determinant says they should be ready. Community School strives to create an atmosphere or a climate which stimulates desire and growth. We envision learning as creating meaning, and particularly as creating meaning based on prior experiences and understandings. Over the course of their preschool, elementary, and secondary school years at Community School our students are encouraged to develop an eagerness to learn and explore and an appreciation for the variety and wonder of the world.