What is unique about the Ethical Culture Fieldston School?
At ECF, learning grows out of curiosity, of wanting to know and to do. Education here is focused on giving each individual the opportunities, skills, and encouragement to develop a unique self. It is learning that is always doing, making, shaping, building, growing, and thinking. Cooperative and social, it sometimes means being part of a team, but it is also introspective – learning to listen to one’s conscience and to follow one’s heart. ECF offers an innovative and rigorous experience. At ECF it is learning with purpose: to be a clear and daring thinker, to be good and kind, to be competent and skillful, to be a responsible citizen, to be an agent of positive change. It is an education which prepares you not simply for college, but for life. ECF enthusiastically embraces the ideals, the values, and the methods of progressive education. At ECF, learning to learn and understanding what it is to understand are essential skills that only come from doing. As one of the oldest progressive
