Vision
“Seek the source and set your sights high!”
Moor House Academy Learning Guides and Private School
Vision
Our vision is to build statesmen and change the world, one individual and family at a time.
Moor House Academy is an “Uncommon School” where mentors, mentor parents in preparing themselves and their youth, as well as, mentor individuals, in seeking a well-rounded education, of both, mind and heart; so that they will be better prepared to serve God, to lead, and to make a valuable contribution to this world.
Moor House Academy anchors their educational approach to the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and moors it to the classics.
Why statesmen?
“Oh, how our world needs statesmen!” And we ask again with George Bernard Shaw, ‘Why not?’ We have the raw material, we have the facilities, we can excel in training. We have the spiritual climate. We must train statesmen, not demagogues; men of integrity, not weaklings who for a mess of pottage will sell their birthright. We must develop these precious youth to know the art of statesmanship, to know people and conditions, to know situations and problems, but men who will be trained so thoroughly in the arts of their future work and in the basic honesties and integrities and spiritual concepts that there will be no compromise of principle.“
Spencer W. Kimball
Why an “Uncommon School?”
“It is time we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave our education when we begin to be men and women. It is time that villages were universities, and their elder inhabitants were fellows of the universities, with leisure to pursue liberal studies the rest of their lives.” from Walden– Henry David Thoreau
We believe that it is the family, and not the village, that is the basic unit of society and molder of youth. The village or community may assist, but cannot replace the family. So, we envision “uncommon schools” to be family schools that function within the greater community, with other family schools. We also believe that greater purposes of leisure are to “recreate” vital energy, develop God given talents, and through study, prepare the individual to serve, as well as, make a unique and valuable contribution to the world in which we live.