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To make the decision to provide a Carden education for your child,
it is important to have
an overview of what the Carden Method, developed by Mae Carden,
is all about.
The following is a brief overview of the philosophy and history
behind our Carden curriculum.
Mae Carden developed the Carden Method for learning and opened
Miss Carden's
School for Young Children in October of 1934 in New York. Her
curriculum is designed for
children beginning from the age of three and continuing through
each grade, reinforcing
and building upon the strengths gained by the student from the previous
year. The Carden
Method is specifically designed to help children develop their innate
powers of analytical and organized thinking. Mae Carden believed
that life and learning are enhanced by the ability to interconnect
academic, social, and artistic skills through a strong foundation
of knowledge
sprinkled with humor and service.
A strong basic in Mae Carden's educational philosophy involves
the Carden Standards of
Living and the life pattern of Cause and Effect. In her book, "Let's
Bring Them Up Sensibly"
Mae Carden describes this pattern as "the only way to assure
the desired effect is to
weigh life's values, bear them in mind, act in accordance with them,
and reap the rich
reward." In using Miss Carden's philosophy of Cause and Effect
in our school curriculum,
we are working towards our goal of providing our students a foundation
of knowledge
along with the self-confidence and communication skills needed to
share their gifts with
the world.
Underlying all of Miss Carden's writing and educational materials
is the importance
of giving children a joy for learning. As she wrote, "I
want children to learn and to
enjoy learning. Life is a joy, so should be learning."
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