MISSION
Ocean Classroom Foundation is committed to sending students and their teachers to sea, on voyages in which the traditions, values and adventure of maritime life provide a unique context for education. We strive to create programs aboard our ships in which our students grow stronger and more confident socially, intellectually, ethically and physically to take their places among the generations of exceptional men and women who have been transformed by seafaring life.
PHILOSOPHY
The guiding principle of Ocean Classroom Foundation is authentic experience. All academic activities are related to the sea.
Ocean Classroom Foundation students live in the ocean world, and interact with its natural and cultural forces every day. Their learning occurs in context, as they explore and test their new knowledge in the real environment. Abstractions of science and math are grasped and tested, and themes of literature and history are made tangible and relevant. Living and working upon the ever-changing sea requires all voyagers to be alert, clear minded, open-eyed and responsive to the environment. This sense of responsive alertness is cultivated as Ocean Classroom Foundation's path to learning.
THREE PRINCIPLES
Full Participation: all students participate fully in the life and operation of the ship.
Seamanship Training: all students receive continual training in the arts and sciences of traditional seafaring.
Appreciation of the Sea: all students are introduced to the ocean as an environment subject to ecological imperatives, and as a place of natural wonder and profound beauty.
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