Philosophy



At Smith's Health Sciences Academy, the instruction is all based upon essentialism and progressivism. At SHSA we believe that learning is based on learning as an indivual, but at the same time we also think the education should be child-centered. We want students to have input in the interest of the medical field. The classes are essentialism because we need students be independent at certain times to show they don't always need help. But then again, we need our children to put there thought in every activity that we do. We need to know this information because we need to know if the children are really interested in the medical field.