This classroom experience is not unusual at Exeter, as I learned during my recent visit to the school. In the 1930s, the academy established a model of teaching called the Harkness method ...

Exeter, N. B., November 16--A gift has been made to Phillips Exeter Academy by Edward S. Hark-ness, donor of the Harvard House Plan, for the purpose of making definite improvements in secondary ...

Exeter teaches you more than talking," one student tells me. "It teaches you to listen. I encountered Harkness tables all over campus. They were in the Phelps Science Center, which also housed ...