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Indian Springs School is a private school that includes grades eight through twelve with both boarding and day students. It is at the base of Oak Mountain, in Indian Springs Village, Shelby County, Alabama, United States. ==History== Indian Springs School was founded in 1952 by Birmingham-born, MIT-educated businessman Harvey G. Woodward, who left in his will the funds and instructions for creating the school at his death in 1930. In some ways, his vision was progressive. Woodward wanted to make the school available to both upper-class and lower-class people. He instructed that the school should champion a holistic approach to learning (the school's motto is "''Discere Vivendo''", or "Learning through Living"). During its first years, the school was a working farm, which the students tended, although this element was shortly eliminated. However, Woodward also stipulated that the school could admit only whites, non-Jews, and boys, limitations that all were eventually challenged and abolished. The school is now praised for its wide diversity.〔("Where There's a Will: The Story of Indian Springs School" ) by Pam Jones, Alabama Heritage Magazine, Number 77, Summer 2005, 26-33.〕 Indian Springs opened in 1952 with ten staff members and sixty students. The first director of the school was Louis "Doc" Armstrong. He made several changes to Woodward's original plans for the school, most notably Woodward's request that the school not be preparatory. By the 1970s, the school had grown to include equal numbers of day students and boarders. An eighth grade was added, and the school began admitting girls in 1976. Indian Springs School was the first school in the Southeast to be recognized by the Malone Family Foundation,〔(Malone Family Foundation )〕 with a $2-million grant to underwrite tuition and other expenses for gifted students whose families could not otherwise afford an independent school. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indian Springs School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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