Education
Nantucket is served by Nantucket Public Schools. The Nantucket school system has 1,289 students and approximately 117 teachers as of 2011.
Schools on the island include:
- Lighthouse School (Not Public)
- Nantucket New School (Not Public)
- Nantucket Elementary School (Public)
- Cyrus Peirce Middle School (Public)
- Nantucket High School (Public)
- Nantucket Community School (Public, Extracurricular)
Nantucket Public Schools District information and meetings are broadcasted on Plum TV in Nantucket, and even further information on the schools can be accessed at their website.
A major museum association, the Maria Mitchell Association, offers educational programs to the Nantucket Public Schools.
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“Statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, much legislation is moral legislation because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres of life.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)
“The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farm should be made familiar to every boy, and suitable industrial education should be furnished for every girl.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“There comes a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)