Contrast of schools
...he students and attempt to make learning interesting, while keeping a Christian attitude in all that they teach. Both schools are private institutions, which the Jesuit community leads. This Jesuit community in each school requires a strict dress code of a tie, shirt, slacks, and nice shoes. This dress code is active for all the 800 student bodies of each school. Both student bodies consist only of boys ranging from about 14-18 years of age. However, the environment of each school are very different. Jesuit Prep provides a warm learning environment by vividly decorating each wall throughout the school with paintings and works of art to share culture with the student body. Fairfield Prep students must look at the usual drab colors of an off-white based paint that showers the walls of each main building. Each building of Fairfield contains hundreds of lockers, each with a lock protecting each locker. Fairfield's padlock security scheme does not exist within the Jesuit Prep community, as each locker is bare with no locks or locking devices anywhere in sight. As the environments are different, the overall attitude of both schools is different, too. Fairfield Prep encourages a strict follow-the-teacher approach to teaching where the students must learn all from the teacher and expressions of their ideas are discouraged. Jesuit stresses an open atmosphere that encourages a cooperative atmosphere where the students learn with the teachers and the students are able to discuss classwork, or even socially with the teachers after school. This open atmosphere leads to more personal fr...