“The single thing that I value most about school is the size of the community. It's small enough that every voice counts. The way I see it, that makes the community itself totally fair. Faculty, administrators, and students all have a say about what goes on here. There are formal leadership roles for students - the citizenship committee, student council, proctorships and so on. But even those of us who don't have one of these roles make contributions. I started this year's Sustainability Committee just because I was interested in helping out and learning how I affect the world, not because I had to or somebody had to. I feel like many students here are fairly well developed leaders on their ways to becoming great leaders.”

 ~ Jan Wojtasinski ’08, Kingston, MA

 

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The three-part ecology of self, community, and Earth permeates all that WMS students learn and do. This awareness of being part of something larger than oneself - a tightly knit learning community, a team, a town, a mountain range, a planet - helps students to form an outwardly-focused perspective and to begin asking the "big questions."