Education is a life-long process begun at birth.  Therefore, it is our major challenge: "To Provide Excellent Programs for Our Children;" this we accept as our trust.  However, ALL of our citizens, from pre-schoolers to senior citizens, have the right to grow into contributing members of the world community.

To achieve this, M.S.A.D. #49 commits itself to services and programs that promote dignity, knowledge, and awareness of the world as individual and community needs require.In order to remain responsive to these needs, a close home-school-community relationship must be continually fostered. Through on-going communication and evaluation, programs will be monitored, adjusted, and created to meet the unique challenge of living in our respective communities as citizens of the world at large, today and tomorrow.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts...  it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves.

-Robert Hutchins