Our own Lijuan Cai, International Student Advisor, and her husband Yunxiang Zhu, Vice President of Asia Expansion and Professor of Management at MUM, had the honor of greeting Xi Jinping, Vice President of China, on his visit to Moline, Iowa. Here are two news reports: Chinese Couple Excited About Vice President's Muscatine Visit From The Gazette: Mike... Read More »
Dear Maharishi School Parents, The last few weeks have been jammed with special activities, with more approaching. Jamie Vollmer’s Call to Action It began with the seminar organized by the MUM Education Department, featuring our own Jamie Vollmer. Jamie is a nationally acclaimed author and speaker on school-community relations, Fairfield-based and parent of two Maharishi School... Read More »
ADDvantage, the Magazine for the United States Professional Tennis Association, features Lawrence Eyre, 2009 USPTA National High School Coach of the Year. Get your game on track with meditation and yoga by Eric Hinchman, USPTA January 2012--The mind of a tennis player is the craziest thing. Consider the 1975 Wimbledon men's final when Arthur Ashe defeated... Read More »
Dear Maharishi School Parents, Happy 2012 to all of you! We are excited about the start of the New Year and look forward to major steps of progress for Maharishi School in the coming year. This is the time of year when the extracurricular activities swing into high gear for our older students, with the speech... Read More »
by Christine Albers, Director of Expansion When Oprah Winfrey walked through the doors of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment on Wednesday, October 19th, I knew I would remember that day for a long time. For several weeks, her Harpo Productions film crew was at the school interviewing students. Rumors circulated that perhaps Oprah might... Read More »
This week I knelt down next to a two-month old boy and had an epiphany. Actually two. His eyes were so wide-open, absorbing experience, gazing unfiltered to and through me at a world of wonder. Two thoughts emerged. First, how each of us is hard-wired to learn (The SCI principle: “The nature of life is to... Read More »
AN INTERVIEW WITH LAWRENCE EYRE, "NATIONAL TENNIS COACH OF THE YEAR" Eleven-year-old Lawrence Eyre loved tennis from the first moment he set foot on court. He learned to play in the public parks of Moline, Illinois, and in high school he became the Quad-Cities singles and doubles champion. At Yale University he varsity lettered his freshman... Read More »
By Dr. Richard Beall for TM Magazine in July 2011. To see the article in it's entirety go to: http://issue2.tmmagazine.org/maharishi-school-magic.html I’m six miles high, flying across the Midwest to Knoxville, TN, to join 14,000 of the world’s most out-of-the-box inventive kids. It’s Destination ImagiNation’s Global Finals, and we have five Maharishi School state champions representing Iowa. This is... Read More »
From School Director, Dr. Ashley Deans: It was great to meet up with the Maharishi School seniors in Rome and to participate in the latter part of their senior trip to Italy. Our guide in Rome was long time Governor of the Age of Enlightenment Roberto Baitelli (kneeling) who showed us many of the sights. The... Read More »
From Dr. Beall, School Head: This is my last blog from China, but not about China. Later today we’ll begin the long trip home, curiously leaving Beijing at 4:10pm and arriving in Chicago at 4:19pm, the same day. But that’s with time changes after a 13-hour+ flight. This has been an extraordinary experience, from start to... Read More »