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Biology Class

Education

Wisdom, eloquence, and virtue—these are the goals, i.e., the fruit, that a classical education cultivates within its students.  The ancients knew that education should be about more than “basic skills” and mere competency.  A good education transformed, elevated, and refined the mind and the soul.

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For thousands of years, the classical arts of learning were the standard for education.  These arts were timeless and proven because they focused on the timeless and proven.  The Good, the True, and the Beautiful were the objects of this sort of education.  Eloquent confessors and wise leaders were its results.

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Our communities badly need just these sort of men and women.  In an endless pursuit of the latest educational dogma, most of our schools no longer have the capacity to judge what is True, much less teach it.  In forsaking the soul for the mind, they have forgotten how to educate both.

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Classical Education is a return to excellence in teaching, curriculum, and expectations. 

Can you settle for anything less for your child?

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Academic

  • Classical education seeks to foster a love of learning in students.

  • Classical education seeks to train the free mind to think logically and to use sound reasoning.

  • A goal of classical education is to foster in students a sense of wonder and a desire to learn more.

  • Classically-educated students score higher on standardized tests than their progressively-educated counterparts.

  • Classical education provides a way for the learner to acquire knowledge, to understand it well, and to know when, where, and how to use it.

  • Classical education trains students to communicate effectively.

  • Classical educators teach history through primary sources as much as possible. Instead of reading what someone wrote about the Constitution of the United States of America in a textbook, students read the Constitution itself. Studying primary sources will engender a deeper, more accurate, understanding of a given historical period.

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Formative

  • Honed skills in logic and rhetoric are essential elements in both church and civil leadership.

  • Classical Lutheran education is focused on wisdom and virtue, and the development of the whole child in all his vocations such as parent, spouse, employee or employer, church member, and citizen.

  • Classical education prepares students exceedingly well for college admissions and career opportunities, but also looks beyond these goals seeking to cultivate human excellence, and to prepare servant-leaders for the Church, the home, and the world.

  • Classical Lutheran education develops wisdom, eloquence, and virtue through the formative elements of the liberal arts while nurturing a child in the historic Christian faith.

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Biblical

  • Classical Lutheran education embodies both the sound doctrine and the educational model that are essential to training up our children in the faith.

  • If our doctrinal foundation is not sound, the Scriptures will not be supreme in our schools, and our students will not be equipped to confess and defend the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

  • Lutheran educators confess and teach that only the Holy Spirit grants faith in Christ Jesus, and in Him alone is righteousness for heavenly citizenship.

  • Not only is it of great value to the Lutheran church to support classical Lutheran education, but it is the duty of the Lutheran church to ensure our children are trained up in the faith and taught well.

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Historic & Time Tested

  • With its roots in Western civilization, classical education is imperative in counteracting the moral confusion, spiritual delusion, and cultural upheaval that stem from the relativistic postmodern worldview.

  • Students participate in the Great Conversation—the ongoing dialogue of writers and thinkers who are referencing, building on, and refining the work of their predecessors.

  • Classical education has produced the world’s greatest leaders, thinkers, writers, artists, inventors, scientists, and theologians in the history of Western civilization.

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