Science is in everything we see, touch, smell, taste and hear at Learning Gate. And our science curriculum is woven throughout our other subjects disguised as an environmental theme.  Today it is called ecoliteracy.  Since 1983 we have just called it “Learning Gate”.  But our students leave Learning Gate with more than a superior academic science background.  They leave with a love and admiration for this earth.  We teach our children awareness, appreciation and advocacy for this world we live in and send them on their way to be stewards of this earth. 

There is no one who said it better than Rachel Carson:
 “I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society.  I believe that whenever we destroy beauty, or whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man’s spiritual growth…The pleasures, the values of contact with the natural world are not reserved for the scientists.  They are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of a lonely mountain top---or the sea---or the stillness of a forest; or who will stop to think about so small a thing as the mystery of a growing seed…  In contemplating the exceeding beauty of the earth these people have found calmness and courage….  For there is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds; in the ebb and flow of the tides; in the folded bud ready for the spring.  There is something infinitely healing in these repeated refrains of nature---the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.  Mankind has gone very far into an artificial world of his own creation….But I believe that the amore clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”