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<p>I stand corrected. But still, he made many generous donations to the top New England boarding schools. Exeter wasn’t really blessed with this task to come up with something great…it was one of his many donations and exeter came up with the method. I mean the book IS a book about exeter…it’s made to make them look special. Harkness was a generous man, I highly down it was some “bestowed gift” as the book describes it. Just another one of his generous donations and it turned out to be something big in the northeast. </p>

<p>He also donated those tables to many other boarding schools in New England, and donated the School House at St. Paul’s. He was a generous guy, what I’m trying to say is he didn’t give some wonderful gift to only Exeter. It was one of his abundance of gifts that turned out to be used by many other schools. Edward had the idea…told the Exeter teaching staff about it, they came up with the idea to make the table an oval shape, then he donated that table to many top schools in the area. I mean, doesn’t sound like a “bestowed gift” to me. An SPS alum had the vision of it and funded it…Exeter teachers came up with the shape…I think the books a little bias. His vision was for all top boarding schools, that’s why he bought the tables for many schools after Exeter teachers helped him with the shape.</p>

<p>From everything I’ve looked at that’s what it sounds like to me. I’m really tired right now, so I may have rambled a bit there sorry about that.</p>

<p>Not trying to offend anyone…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.harknesstable.com/about.htm[/url]”>http://www.harknesstable.com/about.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Under that site’s “clients” page, there are a ton of boarding schools.</p>

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<p>Yes lots of schools use round or oval tables. Lots of schools also use cooperative learning techniques including colleges, private and public schools high schools. It’s all about learning how to learn vs rote memorization. That link was interesting thanks mpicz.</p>

<p>This is a thread about Exeter and all things Exeter so Harkness is definitely a part of its history. I agree other schools use it too. I believe Exeter may incorporate it to its fullest extent since they use it for humanities, science, math ect… Which may be a good or a bad- myself I can see the merit in a hybrid approach between harkness and traditional classrooms.</p>