10. New Earth Institute practices experiential learning in an atmosphere of open communications.

Our purpose is to integrate objective knowledge with subjective experience so that what is learned incorporates head, heart, and hands. The hours we devote to individual and group projects each day allows students to experience every step of the process of independent learning. The students select, design, research, implement, and document each project and then present it, individually or collectively, to an audience of peers, teachers, and friends. By going through this process a number of times, students incrementally learn how to teach as well as how to learn. By experiencing the entire process from many perspectives, they master the process of learning itself. It may take a dozen projects before the procedure become second nature. Students may require considerable help and encouragement, but in the end they will master all the ingredients of becoming an independent learner.