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philosophy
The Patient Work of Formation
Our founder's name gives us our first principle: Chingshin - a calm heart. In stillness, there is clarity. In patience, there is growth.
We reject the factory model of schooling. A child is not raw material to be processed, measured, and sorted. A child is a question the future is asking. Our task is to help each student hear that question clearly - and to give them the knowledge, skills, and character to answer it well.
Fifteen Years
Fifteen years is a spiral staircase. Students return to the same essential questions—What is true? What is good? What is beautiful? What do I owe others?—at each stage of development, with greater sophistication each time.
“We believe you cannot raise whales in a goldfish bowl. So we build larger waters.”