Classical Education is an Important Commitment
As a parent who has selected classical education for your child, you have made an important long-term decision. In doing so, you have agreed with us that education is about more than just getting your child ready for college or the workforce. It’s about much more than a vague notion of socialization or critical thinking skills.
Classical education is a commitment to ennobling your child’s heart and mind. Societies live and die according to the quality of its people. When children are raised to know things and to value, seek, and to do good, they tend to do magnificent things. They work tirelessly to improve the lives of others. They raise strong families. They promote moral conduct. They create beauty.
Ennobling your child’s heart and mind starts with a commitment to teaching about the world in a clear, honest, and in-depth manner. It means establishing the values of the school, articulating a set of virtues, and then living by them. It means imagining what good looks like and then seeking to do it. It means studying the best and true ideas unapologetically. All of these things are present in a mature American classical school.
We are on that path here. Our school is small and new. We won’t deliver on every aspect of the program in the first few years, but we will, with dogged determination, offer an education that pursues knowledge, promotes virtue, and prepares your child for a prosperous and meaningful life
By Mike Terry
National Director of Classical Education
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