Our Mission & Values
Our Mission
To create an innovative Consciousness-Based educational environment where students think deeply and become creative, compassionate, contributing citizens of the world.
Be Valued
We’re small. All the students know each other. Teachers know all the students. And the small class sizes create a learning environment where every relationship matters and every voice is encouraged and expected. Students from 30 countries have walked through our doors allowing for a rich mosaic of perspectives and preferences.
Beyond our doorstep lies Fairfield, a small, safe community stitched together with progressive values and people from all over the world. Smithsonian Magazine recently named Fairfield one of the “Top Small Towns in America to Visit.” It’s so special that Oprah herself came to visit Fairfield and Maharishi School and slipped into a meditation seat next to our students. This intimate and inclusive setting makes Maharishi School a very special home away from home.
Maharishi School’s vision of holistic education encompasses not just an array of academic subjects and extracurricular pursuits, but also a focus on character development from outer examples and training. We are committed to drawing out the phenomenal gifts and potential in each person’s inner self.
Think Vertically
We offer AP courses to prepare our students for college-level work and Honors classes to promote creativity. Our students also have a unique interdisciplinary course called Consciousness, Connections, & Life Skills, where they see underlying, universal principles that are common to the structure and functioning of all aspects of life—their academic subjects, in nature, and in themselves.
Tap New Reservoirs of Creativity
To unleash our students’ dynamic creativity, we dedicate 1 hour, three times a week to Project-Based Learning. In this Project Period, students explore their passions through teacher-led or self-designed projects. Supported by faculty and community experts, they learn to problem-solve, experiment, and persevere—building real-life skills while discovering who they are in a space that honors and encourages individuality.
Gain Self Knowledge
Through our unique program that is part theory, part practice, students learn to operate from a place of center. They learn how to imbue life with stillness, self-awareness, and presence. This lays the foundation for academic success and prepares students for all areas of future life. By knowing who they are, our students can more fully be themselves.
Be Successful & Happy
Maharishi School students awaken hidden potentials and accomplish audacious goals. Our alumni have gone on to prestigious universities such as MIT, Stanford, Middlebury, and Oxford. They boast achievementsin renowned international competitions like the INTEL Science and Engineering Fair and Destination Imagination’s Global Finals.
“A flower only blooms when its roots are watered. In the same way, when we nourish ourselves through meditation, our true nature blossoms and we unleash our innate creativity and genius.”
Our Foundation
Our Values
Welcome to Maharishi School, one of America’s most unique and progressive schools. What began in 1981 as a single innovative school is now the model for a special kind of holistic education around the world.
At Maharishi School, the foundation of our college preparatory program is optimal alertness. You could have the most ideal school imaginable—best teachers, best facilities, best curriculum, and technology—but if students enter the classroom stressed, fatigued, or distracted, how much can be gained?
What if there were a way to optimize students’ alertness? Every aspect of school life would be enhanced: assimilating and retaining knowledge, social and emotional development, physical health, and well-being.
That is why at Maharishi School we invest in the rest of a special kind. Our students and teachers take time to transcend twice a day, with the practice of yoga and Transcendental Meditation. This allows them to gain deep rest and dissolve stress before it accumulates. It improves brain functioning. In a world of nearly incessant outer stimuli, it gives them a respite of inner silence, a connection with their own individual true self.
School Culture
Core Values
Respect
Responsibility
We accept responsibility for our own thoughts, words, and actions.
Service
We seek ways to serve others and to be good stewards of our environment.
Solutions
Whenever confronted by challenges or problems, we seek creative solutions. “Don’t agonize, organize.”
Transcendence
Our daily practice of Transcendental Meditation builds depth in our thinking and provides the support of Natural Law to fulfill our goals, desires, and Core Values.