Why Choose
SCA?
At SCA, we believe that all that exists comes from the loving, creative activity of the Triune God. Since all things come from God, we believe all learning should lead us back to God, so in everything we aim to cultivate a school culture that fosters a love of God and neighbor.
Classical education is a method that takes into account the ways children learn well: from memorization to questioning to communicating clearly. Classical education is also content, passing on the Great Books, Latin, logic, music, and more to our children. Third, classical education teaches students to be lifelong learners by giving them the tools to learn on their own. In all these things, classical education aims at formation in virtue.
We believe education is primarily about formation before it is about information, and we are being formed in virtue as we live in community. Our school culture is designed to help students and families build godly and virtuous relationships as we live together in community.
Education must go beyond our head and into our hearts. Therefore, Christian education should shape and order our loves, to learn to love what is worth loving: namely, God first, then our neighbor, and then the things which God has created.
We believe education is primarily about formation before it is about information, and we are being formed in virtue as we live in community. Our school culture is designed to help students and families build godly and virtuous relationships as we live together in community.
Education must go beyond our head and into our hearts. Therefore, Christian education should shape and order our loves, to learn to love what is worth loving: namely, God first, then our neighbor, and then the things which God has created.
Too often we misunderstand the power and purpose of education. That is, we think getting the grades, completing the courses, and securing a degree will get our children good jobs and good lives. But education is more than content and credentials. All education is discipleship into a way of life. The question is not if our children will be formed, it is toward which kind of life will they be formed that is the pertinent question. At SCA, we believe in a formative education that trains students to be lifelong disciples by forming them into the way of life defined by Jesus: “And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.‘” (Matt 22:37-40, ESV)
What is Classical Christian Education?
Classical Christian education is the cultivation of wisdom of virtue by nourishing the soul on the good, the true, and the beautiful by means of the seven liberating arts so that in Christ the student is better able to know, glorify, and enjoy God. Classical Christian education is rooted in Christ and expressed through formational learning of the arts and skills of learning, which are applied to Great Books and Great Ideas so that students can learn how to enter into conversations that have been ongoing throughout human history. Who is God? What is man? How should we live? How do we come to learn and know anything? These are just a handful of the big questions that humans have sought to answer throughout history, and classical Christian education is designed to form students into lifelong learners who ask and answer these questions in ways consistent with the Christian faith and in conversation with leading voices in history. Want to learn more? Check out some of the resources at the link below.
