Green Mountain Friends School
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Green Mountain Friends School (GMFS) is a Quaker
private school
located in Burlington, VT in the United States offering Quaker education to students ages 5-14. Founded in 2010 by members of New England Yearly Meeting
, its motto is "Honoring the Light Within All Beings", alluding to the Quaker concept of inner light
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According to the school's website, the plan is to develop or work with a farm to give students hands on experience and an awareness of their relationship to the land. There are also plans to foster connections with an elders’ community so both the seniors and the students can benefit from experiences such as watching theater productions together and gathering to share a meal.
Religious Society of Friends
The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences...
private school
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
located in Burlington, VT in the United States offering Quaker education to students ages 5-14. Founded in 2010 by members of New England Yearly Meeting
New England Yearly Meeting
New England Yearly Meeting is a body of the Religious Society of Friends headquartered in Worcester, Massachusetts that includes Friends from the New England region of the United States....
, its motto is "Honoring the Light Within All Beings", alluding to the Quaker concept of inner light
Inner light
Inner Light is a concept which many Quakers, members of the Religious Society of Friends, use to express their conscience, faith and beliefs. Each Quaker has a different idea of what they mean by "inner light", and this also varies internationally between Yearly Meetings, but the idea is often...
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According to the school's website, the plan is to develop or work with a farm to give students hands on experience and an awareness of their relationship to the land. There are also plans to foster connections with an elders’ community so both the seniors and the students can benefit from experiences such as watching theater productions together and gathering to share a meal.
"We envision GMFS becoming much like a village where people of all ages are brought together to learn cooperation, strengthen their minds, respect their differences, and know their valuable connection to one another."