<!-- Alternate content for non-supporting browsers --> <table width="570" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td> </td> <td valign="top"><p><br> <img src="images/day_text.gif" width="121" height="30"><br> <br> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="4%"> </td> <td valign="top"><p align="left"><br> <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><a href="http://www.aseds.org/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> to connect to the website of<o:p> </o:p>ALL SAINTS’ EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></p> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0;"><span class="style1">The Episcopal Educational Ethos</span></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;"><br> by The Reverend Peter F. Walsh, Past Rector<br> </p> <p>All Saints’ Episcopal Day School is 44 years old, but it is rooted in the Episcopal educational ethos which dates back to the Benedictine monks who brought Christianity to the British Isles. These monks taught the English children their way of life, which included prayer, study, and work. Over time as the educational system moved from monasteries to schools, the Benedictine tri-fold way was translated into a balanced educational system that included the mind, the body, and the soul.</p> <p>All Saints’ is an Episcopal Church School grounded in the Episcopal educational ethos. We educate children in the light of God – mind, body, and soul. We combine academic excellence with spiritual and moral formation. We believe the mind is a gift from God and we honor God by vigorously pursuing the life of the mind in conjunction with the spiritual and moral disciplines that make us whole and holy people. To that end, our communal life and spiritual formation are grounded in Christian worship through the Book of Common Prayer. Moreover, we also teach children to pray so that they will have the tools to pursue a deep relationship with God on their own.</p> <p>The students attend religious classes which convey the fundamentals of the Christian faith as understood by the Episcopal Church, including an introduction to the Old and New Testaments. They also study world religions and explore the issues of character development. The classes are conducted in an environment that is academically rigorous and existentially probing.</p> <p>The Episcopal way is an inclusive tradition. Because of the universal love of Jesus Christ, we hold diversity to be a core value and welcome and embrace the full spectrum of all human beings. In particular, one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Episcopal ethos is that we invite people of all religions to be members of our community. We believe that we have much to learn from one another and encourage those of different religious convictions to plunge deeply into their tradition and to grow in the power of the Spirit.</p> <p>We pursue service learning as an important part of the student’s formation as a human being. In this we encourage students to care for others through volunteer activities and then to come back to the class to reflect upon their experience of giving and to probe the systematic issues involved with why people are homeless, hungry, and without the necessities they need to survive and thrive as human beings.</p> <p>The Episcopal educational ethos calls upon the community to be a holy and nurturing marinade in which children grow up to fulfill their highest callings as children of God who are called to serve a world in need.</p> <p></p> <p align="left"> </p> <p> </p> <p align="left"><b> </b></p> <p align="left"> <b> </b></p></td> </tr> </table>
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