Montpelier High School
Mission Statement

The community of Montpelier is committed to educating its children so that they may lead productive and meaningful lives. Montpelier High School aspires to provide every student with those intellectual, practical, and social skills - the ability to think critically, to solve complex problems, and to work well with others - that will be necessary in any future endeavor, and also to provide opportunities for each student to realize his or her unique creative potential. In educating our students for the future we embrace modernity thoughtfully. While it is important for every student to have a skilled understanding of modern technology, we also cherish the traditional sources of human contentment and meaning - playing, reading, expressing oneself through language and art, working with tools, growing, preparing, and eating healthy food, enjoying camaraderie and one's own vitality through athletic activity, making decisions and celebrating as a community, and living in harmony with nature. We cherish as well the legacy of fortitude, self-reliance, and neighborliness that we have inherited from previous generations of Vermonters. We believe that a sense of belonging and responsibility to the community is the foundation of thoughtful citizenship. Montpelier High School is dedicated to enlivening in its students those human qualities - kindness, generosity, honesty, perseverance, self-reflection, self-respect and respect for others, a sense of humor, a "vivid sense of the beautiful"*, and an abiding gratitude for life - that are essential to personal fulfillment and the maintenance of a free, just, and healthy society.

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* Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, "Education for Independent Thought" (from the New York Times October 5, 1952), Bonanza Books, 1954

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