Quaker educational philosophy emphasizes drawing out the teacher within each child to stretch children’s curiosity, reasoning abilities, creativity, and independence. Learning through inquiry shifts the educational emphasis from the product to the process, developing critical thinking skills and broadening students’ engagement with content. In the Pines class (ages 7 to 9), reading opens doors where information can be claimed as one’s own, and the language of mathematics helps students better grasp the enormity of the world. Connecticut Friends Schools’ commitment to a small school environment with multi-age classrooms and low student-teacher ratios creates optimal conditions for students to maintain their love of learning—without dampening their natural childhood exuberance.