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格罗顿的特色
任何成员都是不可或缺的一份子
在这个拥有370位学子的校园里，任何一个人都是不可或缺的一份子。所有格罗顿的学生因着对彼此的承诺以及对整个团队的承诺而团结在一起。在当今社会，一些优良的品质，如正直和礼仪正日渐缺失。然而这些美好的品质在格罗顿却依旧被视作珍宝。校园内和谐友好的气氛和优秀的学生典范影响着校内的每一位成员，并激励着每一位学生去了解他们自己的优势和能力。
优异的知识宝库
格罗顿的教育是充分而全面的。在格罗顿, 学生们可以学习两门语言或者同时修六门课程, 在其它中学,这机会越来越少。除传统课程教学外，我们推出创新的教学方法， 比如，STEM项目中充满活力和挑战的数学和科学课程。标准化考试中的优异表现，名牌大学的高录取率以及毕业于格罗顿的在读本科生和研究生的优秀表现，均展示了格罗顿学生出类拔萃的能力和知识水平。
服务就是引领
毫无疑问，格罗顿学生都为学校在历史上为国效力所传承下来的遗产而自豪。得益于前总统富兰克林·德拉诺·罗斯福和其他很多毕业于该校的政策决策者，很少有机构能对美国时代有着与格罗顿一样的影响力。目前在国会就职的议员中就有三位毕业于格罗顿，并且格罗顿的校友们投身于各个不同的领域和行业为公众福祉而奉献着。这一切都充分地体现了格罗顿座右铭的巨大影响力，“服务就是引领”。在校学生和毕业生珍视为他人服务是生活中不可或缺的一部分。
深度与广度
格罗顿坚信青少年应当拓宽而非局限他们的视野。学生不仅要开发他们目前所擅长的才能，同时也要去探索新的领域。学校为学生营造亲密的环境，提供通常只有大型教育机构才能提供的丰富多彩的各种机会。在格罗顿，我们避免强调当下时兴的专业化。格罗顿的学者，运动员，演员以及音乐家们走出校门时已具备了能够在大学阶段在他们擅长的领域里表现出最高水准的潜能，同时他们对自己在多种领域的能力和兴趣有高度的自我意识和认知-包括那些他们在进入格罗顿以后才发掘出来的潜能。
亲密接触
格罗顿给高年级学生提供一系列的选修课，但是学生也可以设计辅导课程。这些辅导一般会在教师的指导下进行，目的是帮助对某些科目有着特殊兴趣的学生做专题的研究。下午的项目也是个性化的：有一项教师赞助的活动帮助学生在各方面进行更深入的学习，该范围包括从化学实验室内的拓展性研究到组建橄榄球队。所有的教职工对每一位学生来说都是一种资源，这是格罗顿的标志性特点，体现了学校创办者恩迪科特·皮博迪注重的理念：学校以家庭为模式来构建。
学长年
格罗顿授信每一位高年级学生于领导的责任。每一个高中生管理一个低年级学生的寝室，而且很多人在学校也可以就其他方面展现自己的领导的才能-或学长-或学校各个方面的领导角色。年纪小的学生也可以从学长的指导中受益良多-他们仰视学长就像他们的大哥哥和大姐姐一样-同时他们也期望自己成为学长的一天，来指导小弟弟妹妹。通过提供辅导来提高他们自己。格罗顿相信学生了解他们的自己的管理风格和能力是非常有必要的。
The Groton Difference
Everyone Matters
In a school of 370 students, everyone matters. Those who attend Groton are united by a deep commitment of one to another and of each to the whole. Integrity and civility, qualities sometimes overlooked today, remain important at Groton. The School's intimacy and ideals foster inclusion and inspire students to understand their strengths and capabilities.
Exceptional Scholarship
A Groton education is thorough. Increasingly rare in secondary schools are opportunities to study two languages or take six courses, but Groton students can. Alongside traditional curricula are innovative approaches to instruction, such as the dynamic math and science classes in our STEM program. Superior performance on standardized tests, high rates of admission to selective colleges, and impressive performance in both undergraduate and graduate institutions demonstrate the advanced scholarship of Groton students.
Cui Servire est Regnare
Groton students are justifiably proud of the School's heritage of service to the nation. Few institutions have had as much influence on the American Century, thanks to graduates including President Franklin D. Roosevelt and numerous policymakers. Currently, three Groton graduates hold seats in Congress, and Groton alumni work for the common good in a wide variety of fields, reflecting the impact of the School's motto, "cui servire est regnare," "to serve is to rule." Students and graduates value service as an essential element of a life well lived.
Depth and Breadth
Groton believes that adolescents should expand their vision, not narrow it. Students develop the talents they know well, but also explore new arenas. The School offers an intimate setting and an array of opportunities found more typically at much larger institutions. At Groton, we avoid the contemporary emphasis on specialization. Groton scholars, athletes, actors, and musicians leave the School prepared to excel at the highest levels in college, but do so with heightened self-awareness of their abilities and interests in multiple areas—including many they would not have dreamed of discovering before Groton.
A Personal Touch
Groton offers Upper School students a full slate of electives, but students also may design tutorials, which are concentrated scholarship in subjects of special interest, under the guidance of a faculty member. The afternoon program can be individualized as well: a Faculty-Sponsored Activity or FSA allows students in-depth study of anything from extended research in a chemistry lab to the formation of a rugby team. The entire faculty serves as a resource to each student, a hallmark characteristic of founder Endicott Peabody's emphasis on a School modeled after a family.
Prefect Year
Groton entrusts every senior with the responsibility to lead. Every Sixth Former leads a dorm of younger students, and many also take on other leadership—or prefect—roles throughout the School. Younger students benefit from their prefects’ guidance—they look up to prefects as they might big brothers or sisters—and they look forward to mentoring as prefects themselves one day. Groton believes it is essential that students understand their leadership style and capabilities.