Mission & Values
Let Your Life Speak.
George School students joyously go out into the world comfortable in their self-awareness and confident that they can make the world a better, kinder place.
Kindness, Goodness, and Global Citizenship
As a Quaker community, we celebrate diversity, practice empathy, and recognize our global citizenship. We empower our students to become responsible, compassionate, and courageous leaders who will positively impact our collective future.
Our Quaker values—centuries old, always relevant—are a force for good. They lead us to serve, to advocate for equity and justice and peace, to take responsibility for ourselves and our environment, to seek the inner light within every person and make space for it to shine.
George School graduates are sharp-minded, purpose-driven, big-hearted, and globally conscious.
We’re all trying to make the world a little brighter, together.
Mission Statement
With Quaker tradition as its touchstone and academic excellence at its core, George School seeks to develop citizen scholars cheerfully committed to openness in the pursuit of truth, to service and peace, and to the faithful stewardship of the earth. We want our students to treasure learning for its own sake and to use it to benefit a diverse world.
Above all, we want them to “let their lives speak.”
52 = the average # of minutes of shared silence/reflection each week.
OUR VALUES AS A QUAKER SCHOOL CAN BE SUMMED UP WITH THE S.P.I.C.E.S.
SIMPLICITY, PEACE, INTEGRITY, COMMUNITY, EQUALITY, and STEWARDSHIP/SERVICE
Core Values
Transformative Teaching & Learning
Personal Integrity
Unity in Diversity
Responsibility to Others
Quakerism
One of the most important ideas in Quakerism is that there is “the light of God” inside all of us.
Although students are taught about Quakerism, George School is committed to being a community where people with vastly different backgrounds, identities, and perspectives are united both in their respect for the unique gifts that each brings and in pursuit of a common good. This belief is reflected in the school’s motto, "Mind the Light."
At George School, we strive for an inclusive culture that recognizes that we are all different from one another, and those differences are appreciated and respected.
Meeting for Worship
Meeting for Worship is a time for silent reflection and for sharing insights with the community.
Central to our Quaker identity, this takes place in the spiritual center of campus at the George School Meetinghouse, which was built in 1812, and moved to campus piece-by-piece from Philadelphia in 1974. Benches, and the people who sit in them, face the center and therefore each other, during meeting.
When an individual feels "moved to speak" in meeting, they may share a statement, a question, or a story. Meeting is where the community shows up, tunes out distractions, listens, reflects, and looks within. All students attend MFW each week in the George School Meetinghouse. Many students come to find that MFW provides an opportunity to slow down, recharge, and explore their spirituality.
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George School is a member of the Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education (CSEE), the leading resource for schools committed to teaching fairness, and to graduating compassionate students who have leadership skills, integrity, and a mind toward service, equity, and social justice. For more than 120 years, CSEE has provided research-based publications, webinars, experts, and events on topics including advising, empathy, leadership, academic integrity, diversity, and service-learning.