Classical Christian Schools provide a liberal arts education. Classically defined, this means to “study truth for its own sake, not only for the sake of what you can do with it or what you can make with it”. (1) Aristotle used an analogy likening this type of study to a ‘free’ man who exists for his own sake and a ‘slave’ who exists for the sake of another man. The purpose, then, of liberal arts study is to educate a man to help him become a better man, not for the sake o

One of the definitions for the word tool is “anything that serves as a means: as, books are a scholar’s tools“. (Webster’s dictionary) The primary definition of tool identifies it as an implement or instrument used for work. In considering these two definitions one can ask, “If the work of a child’s (or a person’s) life is to learn, then how will that occur?”. In other words, what are the tools of learning? Whatever these tools are, they will be instruments to do the work

“Knowledge puffs up but love edifies.” (1Corinthians 8:1) At the heart of classical education is a clash of worldview. Classical education alone produces an intellectual, articulate, logical, but still depraved, man. The Greek (humanist) model of the fulfillment of man is knowledge. The Hebrew (Biblical) model of the fulfillment of man is relationship. As students in a classical Christian school learn, the goal of their learning must never be knowledge for knowledge’s sak