Black Pine Circle School

black pine circle school is an independent, co-educational school for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. our mission is to create a learning community that encourages humanity, empathy, moral depth, cultural understanding, and freedom in intellectual pursuits. educationally, it is our goal to create intellectually vibrant people, independent thinkers, who will never lose their passion for learning, their delight in research and their involvement in cultural pursuits. black pine circle school’s teaching philosophy is best described as socratic. this is a system of learning based on inquiry, questioning, exploration and discovery. this student-centered drawing out of ideas minimizes competitiveness and makes learning personally relevant, motivating students to acquire knowledge and skills for their own sake. by researching in depth the hypotheses they have themselves derived, they will “own” the knowledge they receive and retain it for a lifetime, especially when it is re