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The Meeting School (TMS) was a co-ed boarding school for grades 9-12 based on the practices and principles of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It was located in Rindge, New Hampshire, USA on a working organic farm with of field and forest. It closed in 2011. The mission of TMS was to prepare students with life skills as well as academic knowledge. In a given year, 30-35 students participated in small classes, community living, growing food, and caring for farm animals. Students were engaged, at a highly empowered level, in community decision making. == Philosophy and purpose == The Meeting School was a community-based school where students lived together with faculty on a farm. It emphasized the principles and practices of the Religious Society of Friends. The school depended on each individual to accept responsibility for his or her own growth, and to participate fully in the life of the community. The emphasis was to acknowledge and nurture the unique worth and insight of each person in the community and to co-exist with compassion and harmony in daily living, learning and decision making. The underlying philosophy was to undertake joyful living with emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual integrity. Like most Quaker communities, the school and community promoted simplicity, honesty, mutual trust and respect, the dignity of physical labor, care for each other and the earth and the peaceful response to conflict. They believe they are called to seek and to live with divine guidance both individually and collectively. By providing this kind of nurturing background for secondary students, the hope is that community members will eventually enter into the wider world and contribute profoundly to the lives of others and strive to exemplify a deep sense of compassion and justice. 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「The Meeting School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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