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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“... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)