Classical education uses the best practices of the past in order to prepare our children for the future. It follows the sure path that generations have taken with success. This is the path that has been tried, that has been tested, and which has proved to be true. Classical education educates our children as our greatest forebears were educated. Not long ago, it would have been considered a traditional education.

In recent times, however, there have been so many new directions in education that its main purpose, actually educating our children, has been overshadowed. Schools have followed and rushed to implement all the latest trends, the newest ideologies, and stilted theories of child development. Modern education has wandered off course. This is why we have to go back to the past in order to rediscover the way forward.

Classical education is focused and clear in purpose. It teaches in accordance with the natural proclivities and interests of the student and helps every child grow to his or her full potential regardless of intellectual ability. The classical approach develops skills and habits that are universally applicable, relevant, and useful. It is an education that ultimately becomes internalized. A person trained in this way may properly be called an educated person: one who knows how to learn and who continues learning every day.

I. Western Civilization

II. The Trivium

III. Reading & Writing

IV. Latin