Greenfields maintains a very high sense of ethics¹ and moral² standards throughout the school, based on Mr. L. Ron Hubbard's simple, direct and straightforward guide to making good choices The Way to Happiness® booklet.

In the Lower School children are guided through activities that help them through the various precepts explained in The Way to Happiness booklet, and in the Senior School the rules are based on the same code, which is based on common sense.

Bullying, drugs and any kind of crime are not tolerated. Greenfields has a specially trained Ethics Officer specifically to deal with any behavioural difficulties which cannot be resolved in the classroom. Most problems of this kind are sorted out by appealing to the student's reason and by having the student make amends for any damage done.

At all points the student's understanding of and cooperation with any system of rules and morals are consulted so that violations of rules are in practice quite rare. This stems largely from the adoption of methods of study that appeal to students' engagement with learning and so avoid any behavioural problems arising from lack of understanding of subjects themselves.

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L. Ron Hubbard observed that the common dictionary definitions for the words "ethics" and "morals" were confused, the definitions of each referring to the other. Having made the observation and having the benefit of extensive study and observation in the area, he provided these definitions:

1. Ethics. “Ethics actually consists of rationality toward the highest level of survival for the individual, the future race, the group, Mankind and the other [areas of life] taken up collectively.”
2. Morals. are “a code of good conduct laid down out of the experience of the race to serve as a uniform yardstick for the conduct of individuals and groups."