<p>Post here everything there is to know about Exeter, lol.</p>
<p>bump 10char</p>
<p>Ha, um Exeter is non sibi?</p>
<p>Yup lol
social life,
dorms,
extracurriculars, etc.</p>
<p>Ha, um Andover was non sibi first?</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Hehe :D</p>
<p>Yes, it was.</p>
<p>ooh I got a better one, exeter is harkness.</p>
<p>ooh I got a better one, Andover is need-blind.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Unlike Exeter I think.
You know how it is.</p>
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<p>Ehh I wouldn’t say that. [Edward</a> Harkness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Harkness]Edward”>Edward Harkness - Wikipedia) , Notice anything in the second paragraph 
Maybe exeter is the harkness table method. Harkness is SPS</p>
<p>wasnt it started in SPS, or something?</p>
<p>well then probably the harkness method if you want to get technical. It was started at Exeter then it spread to st pauls and I think lawrenceville. It’s widely used now, but exeter was the first to use the harkness table.</p>
<p>The guy who started it graduated at SPS, however, I believe. The only schools I know which apply Harkness (and ONLY harkness) are SPS, Milton, Exeter, and a few others. Andover does not use it for all.</p>
<p>Yea…and an SPS alum created it. Exeter couldn’t use a method that was never created :P</p>
<p>I’m curious why he gave it to Exeter and not SPS then. Weird…</p>
<p>He didn’t “give” it to anyone. He offered it to them…Exeter was the first to accept it and start implement the use of the tables. I doubt they were the first to be offered the method…considering he was an SPS alum. He probably simultaneously introduced it to the top boarding schools and then whatever happened after that wasn’t in his control</p>
<p>That makes sense. Seems like an interesting way of teaching, though I do not know if it is EVERYTHING that it is cracked up to be.</p>
<p>mpicz: Your facts are not correct. : He didn’t “offer” it to them- he gave them money and told the Exeter faculty to get together and come up with an innovative teaching method- which they did and then he funded it.</p>
<p>Well, he donated a bunch of tables to them.</p>
<p>he donated the money to come up with a new teaching method</p>
<p>He didn’t show up with a truck load of tables.</p>
<p>If you are interested there is a book all about how Harkness was developed.</p>
<p>[After</a> the Harkness Gift, Davis Dyer, Book - Barnes & Noble](<a href=“http://search.barnesandnoble.com/After-the-Harkness-Gift/Davis-Dyer/e/9780976978718/?itm=1]After”>http://search.barnesandnoble.com/After-the-Harkness-Gift/Davis-Dyer/e/9780976978718/?itm=1)
In 1930, philanthropist Edward S. Harkness bestowed a gift of $5.8 million on Phillips Exeter Academy, expecting to inspire “something revolutionary” in secondary education. The gift enabled the Exeter, New Hampshire, academy to redesign pedagogy and classrooms around distinctive oval “Harkness tables” that could accommodate twelve students plus a teacher and to remake its campus into a residential community. The gift transformed education at the school, but its impact spread well beyond the classroom. Since 1930, principles of free and open inquiry and discussion have come to animate Exeter’s efforts to deal with major challenges and changes, including working with an increasingly diverse community, introducing coeducation, and governing and financing a large, complex institution. After the Harkness Gift demonstrates how one leading independent school adopted a distinctive approach to teaching and learning and then successfully adapted it in the service of continuing institutional change.</p>