CFS Journal

Capturing the Intangibles That
Influence Our Children

Many of the deepest and most significant influences on our children, both in the larger world and in our little world at CFS, are difficult to describe or quantify. As Thoreau said, “The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.” 

How do you measure these influences? Frequently it is an anecdote or a vignette that most clearly illustrates the exceptional education that our children are receiving.

A Quaker education is built on the notion of “continuing revelation,” or a ceaseless questioning and search for truth. We see the nuggets that this search turns up every day when our children return from school with a new connection to the world through a mathematics process, a short story, or a Sumerian model. Success at CFS is more than academic excellence, more than the return of a sixth-grade math test or check-marked third-grade spelling homework. It is the intangibles, or Thoreau’s “tints of morning or evening,” that set us apart.

 We hope you will enjoy these vignettes.

Heather Korostoff Murray
Family Association Co-Clerk