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History of Robert Muller School-Fairview

During Robert Muller's 40 year sojourn at the United Nations, his co-workers asked him to outline a global curriculum that could be implemented in schools around the world.

In the 1970s, he outlined the Four Harmonies of the World Core Curriculum. Robert Muller believed that children need to learn about the world in terms of relationships.

When these relationships are properly cherished and nourished, they reveal themselves as four harmonies: the miracle of individual life; the human family; our planetary home and place in the universe; and our point in time. Robert Muller had decided that these Four Harmonies of the World Core Curriculum were areas that every child had a right to understand and experience in their education.

Gloria Crook, founder of the original Robert Muller School in Arlington, Texas, was the first to recognize the Four Harmonies as precisely what the teachers and parents of the school were looking for. The school operated for 18 years, developing and expanding the philosophy and methods of the World Core Curriculum.

Vicki Johnston established the Haven Learning Center in Fairview, Texas, in 1986. Having earned her Masters in Education and certified as a Montessori teacher, she incorporated elements of Waldorf, Whole Language, Multiple Intelligences, and other approaches into the curriculum. Always the goal has been a more child-centered, global, holistic approach to child guidance and education. In 1992, Vicki attended workshops in Arlington to learn about incorporating the philosophical framework of the World Core Curriculum in Haven Learning Center in Fairview. Subsequently, she changed the name of the school to the Robert Muller School of Fairview.

The World Core Curriculum is the best vehicle we have seen for the emergence of world culture through transformative education. It is the perfect umbrella for the development of a gestalt of child-friendly, innovative methods generated by great thinkers in the field of education and child psychology.

Over the past few years, the school has been transforming into a Learning Community. The school now operates under the auspices of the non-profit Center For Living Ethics. The longterm vision of the center is to facilitate learning as living in the midst of a sustainable community of mentors and lifelong learners. At the Center For Living Ethics, the point of any knowledge gained is as a reservoir of relevant information that the individual can channel for the benefit of the whole.