Lydia Geacintov
lgeacint@pingry.org
908-647-5555 ext. 1238
 

Current Classes
Freedom - Senior elective seminar
French 6 -  Supervised Independent Study

As an educator, I see schooling as a center for Inquiry: a place where one can grow, and enhance the discussion of educational issues.  In such a place, everyone becomes a resource, student, teacher, parent, administrator, staff, by following the humanistic approach where dialectics between the individual and teaching clarify issues of how one experiences the world.  This process demands the highest personal critical standards to maintain intellectual integrity.  My own educational experience has been a diverse, multicultural one.  I have learned that any intellectually developmental experience requires constant reevaluation.  The importance of interpretation, the need for insight, for understanding, collegiality, trust, acceptance, tolerance, are necessary to determine priorities in setting goals while looking out for gaps.  This is not an easy task, but one that can be accomplished by involving everyone to define aspirations and principles in creating a mission.  I believe that  Independent School education is one in which "The job is not ours to finish, but neither are we free not to do it." (Talmud)
Therefore, as Director of Studies, I would like to marshal all the talents and the knowledge that our faculty has to offer in order to meet the vision and the mission as proposed by our administrative leadership.