Classical Education

We use the phrase “classical education” to refer not just to the educational practices of the Greeks and Romans, but also to authoritative and excellent education, which has endured over time.

Classical educators believe, like the Greeks, that there exists enduring standards for goodness, beauty and truth. From this shared understanding emerged, over time, a canon of great literature. Some books have been declared “great books” by a consensus of informed critics over long periods of time and these works we dare to call “Classics.” These books contain great ideas that have given birth to and participated in an ongoing conversation about what is good, beautiful and true. More great ideas than these, in fact, exist in “Great Books” such as what is admirable and noble in the human heart. This is called “The Great Conversation.”

One goal at our school is for the students to gain a love of reading and learning, as they participate in the great conversation. NEXT PAGE