Mission

Harford Friends School is a nurturing learning community based upon Quaker principles, in which students pursue academic excellence while discovering, developing, and exercising their inherent talents in order to cultivate a more just, peaceful, and thoughtful world.

Philosophy

Harford Friends School supports the development of lifelong learning habits and offers life-changing experiences for its students. Harford Friends School has a broader importance to the community. It is a standard-bearer for academic achievement as well as the values of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship. Its investment in the community is substantial and its effects long-lasting as graduates remain in the county for an independent education and beyond, living the values they learned at Harford Friends.

Through active participation in Harford Friends School and its community, students…

• Respect that of God in everyone
• Enjoy learning and the associated challenges to current understanding
• Know their own talents and strive to improve abilities through hard work
• Acknowledge, engage and celebrate diversity of thought, learning styles, race, class, culture, sexual orientation among community members near and wide
• Value all methods and sources of learning and seek knowledge with an emphasis on collaboration
• Act responsibly for the survival of our planet and its inhabitants through environmental stewardship and service to the community
• Seek to resolve conflict without violence and value conflict as an opportunity for growth and collaboration
• Seek continuing revelation in an ongoing quest for growth – educational and spiritual

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