Why Choose
SCA?
Sager Classical Academy believes that education is founded on and directed by Jesus Christ. This means that we begin each morning with a Chapel service, so that a humble and contrite heart guides our learning for the day. We strive for excellence in our studies, not competition and not worldly success. All our efforts in the classroom are aimed towards the end of glorifying God, by submitting our gifts and talents to His purposes. Since “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” the cultivation of piety is necessary to learning well.
Classical education is the means by which we seek to glorify God; it is the time-tested strategies primarily drawn from Western culture going back to Socrates. The “classical tradition” refers to the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) as well as the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy). In other words, we teach the liberal arts, those content areas and tools of learning that free a person to live well. Rather than fragmented or disconnected “subjects,” students are immersed in the classics, whole texts such as Plato’s Republic, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Fredrick Douglass’s autobiography. History is taught as a world timeline, a story being authored by our Creator from Genesis, including all nations, tribes and peoples, a story that students are invited to participate in now. Math is an order inscribed in the universe, beautiful patterns that we get to discover. Sciences are about wonder and creation care. By studying in this way, students realize that truth, beauty, and goodness are all connected.
Classical education is the means by which we seek to glorify God; it is the time-tested strategies primarily drawn from Western culture going back to Socrates. The “classical tradition” refers to the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) as well as the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy). In other words, we teach the liberal arts, those content areas and tools of learning that free a person to live well. Rather than fragmented or disconnected “subjects,” students are immersed in the classics, whole texts such as Plato’s Republic, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Fredrick Douglass’s autobiography. History is taught as a world timeline, a story being authored by our Creator from Genesis, including all nations, tribes and peoples, a story that students are invited to participate in now. Math is an order inscribed in the universe, beautiful patterns that we get to discover. Sciences are about wonder and creation care. By studying in this way, students realize that truth, beauty, and goodness are all connected.
We study what great inventors have discovered before us, we practice experiments guided by another, we read the most beautiful hymns of the past, and so forth. The relationship between teacher and student is paramount to a fruitful learning experience, and Sager Classical teachers base their friendship with students on a love for Christ and a love of what they are teaching. Within the classroom, students learn about their differences: some students excel in languages while others excel in numeric arts. They lean on one another and serve one another as they learn, and thus their learning is richer and stronger with the help of friends.
We are formed by practices, which become habits, which become a life, and SCA strives to train students to love what is worth loving. From kindergarten where students spend their day becoming masters of wonder to the older students who receive guidance for their difficult questions and encouragement in their curiosity, Sager Classical Academy is a community of those who are loving beauty, pursuing truth, and desiring goodness. Each term the students memorize and recite passages from the greatest poets to the periodic table of elements; the good, true, and beautiful things are practiced and digested by students to become part of who they are.
We study what great inventors have discovered before us, we practice experiments guided by another, we read the most beautiful hymns of the past, and so forth. The relationship between teacher and student is paramount to a fruitful learning experience, and Sager Classical teachers base their friendship with students on a love for Christ and a love of what they are teaching. Within the classroom, students learn about their differences: some students excel in languages while others excel in numeric arts. They lean on one another and serve one another as they learn, and thus their learning is richer and stronger with the help of friends.
We are formed by practices, which become habits, which become a life, and SCA strives to train students to love what is worth loving. From kindergarten where students spend their day becoming masters of wonder to the older students who receive guidance for their difficult questions and encouragement in their curiosity, Sager Classical Academy is a community of those who are loving beauty, pursuing truth, and desiring goodness. Each term the students memorize and recite passages from the greatest poets to the periodic table of elements; the good, true, and beautiful things are practiced and digested by students to become part of who they are.
Too often in our current culture, we are deceived by advertising or coerced to conform to tribes and groups without discernment. Classical education coaches students in how to think—how to choose models for the good life, to discern which authorities are worth following, which powers are worth fighting, which ideas are worth cultivating and which are lies. From the study of Latin, with its logical, grammatical rules, and the study of grammar itself, students can understand what they read and hear. They study logic more formally in their later years and understand how to compose a well-founded argument. They read closely and often, learning to listen to others’ perspectives, and discern independently what is truth.
