ACADEMICS
Developing a wise and virtuous generation of leaders
Modern education seeks to train for a job or a career. Classical Christian education prepares students to be lifelong learners, clear thinkers, and thoughtful doers. Classical Christian education is not just about what we know, but about who we become.
WHAT IS A CLASSICAL EDUCATION
It is based on three notions.
First, human brains develop skills in stages, and we should work with those natural stages if we want education to be enjoyable!
Second, rather than believing that every child must (or can) develop the world’s greatest ideas on their own, we believe they should first explore the thousands of years of culture that came before them. This culture is their inheritance— an amazing legacy— and it provides the best pathway for them to take up their role as the next generation of the Great Conversation.
Third, we believe that Truth exists; there is a means to tell the difference between what is bad, good, and great. We believe that the precepts given to us by God are our the best measurement of that is True.
Incorporates The Trivium: Natural Stages of Learning
A three-part process of training the mind.
The early years of school build upon what young brains naturally, necessarily do: absorb information! Just like those young brains can memorize every Pokemon and its evolved forms, they can absorb and retain planets, animals, poems, and math facts. By doing so, they are systematically laying the foundations for advanced study.
In the middle grades, we build upon what students most love doing: questioning and crafting arguments.
In the high school years, students are trained to express themselves, persuasively and creatively. This classical pattern is called the trivium.
Two things that Copernicus, Martin Luther, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglas, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein all had in common:
They all had a Classical Christian education, and they all made meaningful contributions to “The Great Conversation.”
Classical Christian Education only exists because our culture believes that every person has the ability to contribute something of value to the Universe…but that they are unlikely to do that if they are forced to start from scratch! Instead, we believe that students are most likely to fully develop themselves if they are given the chance to first learn from God’s great works in nature, and humanity’s great achievements in literature, science, the arts and mathematics.