Putney’s Strategic
Direction
To address the challenges we now face,
Putney must remain unique. We must sustain our commitment to
the arts and land use programs that distinguish us, and offer an educational
experience that is outstanding, that teaches and enriches the lives
of young people in ways that are not possible elsewhere. We must
live our mission and ideals to the fullest.
Mission
The Putney School stands for a way
of life. Putney is committed to developing each student’s full intellectual,
artistic and physical potential. Putney students are encouraged to challenge
themselves intellectually, to pursue rigorous learning for its own sake,
to actively participate in and appreciate the arts, to contribute meaningfully
to the work program that sustains the School community and the farm
on which it is located, to engage in vigorous athletics, and to develop
a social consciousness and world view that will provide the foundation
for life-long moral and intellectual growth.
Adopted June 8, 1997
Basic Ideals
- Putney
is an educational community where the experiences are broad, expectations
are high and friendships are close. This is a school where energetic
and thoughtful young people from diverse backgrounds engage in many
experiences, learn responsibility and begin to feel their potential.
- The
ability to learn and the desire to question are critical to human growth
and creative achievement. Our academic program stimulates intellectual
curiosity and the skills necessary for thoughtful and thorough learning.
Students are encouraged to question and to work independently.
- We
believe that music, the arts and crafts are basic expressions of the
human spirit and the quest for beauty. To that end, each student participates
in the arts and in music to develop skills that will bring lifelong
enjoyment.
- We
live close to the land and cultivate an appreciation of nature. By studying
the environment of which we are a part, we gain understanding of our
role as stewards of the land.
- The
years at Putney are a time of intense outdoor activity. Students work
on the land and take part in a vigorous athletic program; they develop
self-reliance and lifelong pleasure in accomplishment.
- Life
at Putney helps students develop intellectual integrity and social conscience.
Living in a small community, we urge consideration and respect for others.
- We
believe that freedom entails responsibility.
The
broad range of experiences and intensity of life at Putney help students
to understand their full potential as human beings. By looking beyond
our hilltop to the rest of the world, we encourage them to work consciously
toward the highest civilization they can envision.
From Articles of Association. Revised
April 13, 2002
Priorities
In light of these challenges and our
commitment to remain unique and fully live our mission, we want to build
on the achievements of the past 10 years. We have identified the
following priorities to guide the Putney School over the next 5 years:
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