Classical Liberal Arts
Education
Classical Education in the
Catholic Tradition
All education culminates in the formation of each student in the Catholic Tradition, through which supernatural revelation is communicated to man for the sake of his salvation. Students will learn the truths contained in Scripture and Tradition, as handed on and guarded safe from within the bosom of the Magisterium (teaching office) of the Catholic Church. Moreover, students will move from the symbols (dogmas and doctrines) to the experience of the realities to which these symbols point by frequent participation in the Church's liturgy, through which the presence and actions of God are communicated to their souls.
Classical education consists of teaching students within the framework of the trivium: grammar (how to use symbols to express thought), logic (how to think), and rhetoric (how to communicate). Together, these three dimensions of the liberal arts pertain to the formation of the human mind. They are the foundation of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and persuading.
The Holy See's Teaching on Catholic Schools
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Inspired by a Supernatural Vision
The foundation on which the Catholic Church builds her educational philosophy is the conviction that it is a process which forms the whole child. The specific purpose of a Catholic education is the formation of boys and girls who will be good citizens of this world, enriching society with the leaven of the Gospel, but who will also be citizens of the world to come. Catholic schools, therefore, have a straightforward goal and moral obligation: to foster the growth of good Catholic human beings who loves God and neighbor and thus fulfills their destiny of becoming saints.
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Founded on a Christian Anthropology
A Catholic school must be founded on Jesus Christ the Redeemer who, through his Incarnation, is united with each student. Christ is not an after-thought or an add-on to Catholic educational philosophy but the center and fulcrum of the entire enterprise, the light enlightening every pupil who comes into our schools
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Animated by Communion and Community
That the Catholic school is an educational community “is one of the most enriching developments for the contemporary school. The community aspect of a Catholic school is rooted both in the social nature of the human person and the reality of the Church as both home and school of communion
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Imbued with a Catholic Worldview
Catholocism should permeate the entire curriculum. The teachings of the Catholic faith should not be confined to one single religion class but sould be the lens through which the entire curriculum should be viewed.
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Sustained by Gospel Witness
The careful hiring of men and women who enthusiastically endorse a Catholic ethos is the primary way to foster a school’s catholicity. Catholic education is strengthened by its “martyrs.”
Adapted from the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education for more information Click Here
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Our Headmaster, Mr. Julian Sicam gives the welcome address at our 2022 inaugural gala, in which he discusses what is meant by a classical, liberal arts education in the Catholic tradition and why it is vital to the formation of our students.
Five Intellectual Virtues
Three Speculative and Two Practice
Art
The virtue of art pertains to the use of reason to create and make things in imitation of the Creator.
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