To succeed in being a lifelong learner is to succeed as alifelong questioner who embraces a sense of wonder and curiosity at the world. Accordingly, ProvidenceCountry Day faculty press for questions as much as answers. We champion independent learning and diverse aptitudes and promote a vision of the world as a boundless, ever-changing and provocative place. Ultimately, we hope to create a safe and nurturing environment in which students can take risks that are vital to intellectual and personal development.

In striving for academic excellence, we are committed to technologies old and new: a pencil and a graphing calculator; a posterboard and Powerpoint; the Providence Journal and a Chinese newspaper available through our library Internet subscriptions; flash cards and a Spanish-speaking pen pal, contacted live and out loud through the Shurman Center for Global Understanding and Language Studies. We aim to help students crack the world open like a geode, and to examine it in a manner central to their own minds.