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Our educational philosophy focuses around the innovative ideas of a Minnesota teacher named Marietta Johnson, who brought her unconventional ideas about education to the open-minded new town of Fairhope, and with financial aid from friends, founded The School of Organic Education in 1907.
A proponent of a unique philosophy of progressive education, and a contemporary of Rudolf Steiner and Maria Montessorri, Mrs. Johnson created a school that had no examinations, no homework, and no possibility that any child would ever fail.
She was one of the first to advocate the prolongation of childhood - a period of intense, natural education - so that its attitude would extend to the whole of life.
Mrs. Johnson also believed that physical education should take the form of dancing and creative games, and often said, "the greatest minds are those able to use the spirit of play in their work".
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