ACADEMICS

WHAT IS CLASSICAL CATHOLIC EDUCATION?

Saint Augustine School's vision of education then, in summary, is a commitment to educate the student in the perennial traditions and teachings of the Catholic faith, cultivating a truly virtuous soul whose end in all things is God. This student upon graduation is prepared to encounter the challenges of life with a fully developed Catholic worldview with a firm belief in the importance of the role they have to play in the building up of the kingdom of God on earth.
SAS, in addition to cultivating virtuous habits, also seeks to cultivate the faculties of reason in a student through rigorous academic training. The student is not viewed simply as a container to be 'filled' with knowledge, but is taught 'how' to think by being trained in the traditional skill levels of a classical education: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The classical philosophy of education, developed and practiced for over hundreds of years in the Catholic tradition, seeks to educate a student to seek the true, good, and beautiful in life, and be able to recognize it when it is to be found. A student whose faculties have been trained in the basic skills of language, grammar, reading, writing, and speaking, will be well-equipped to educate themselves in any path they pursue upon graduation.
Thus, this is how SAS embraces and blends together both the Catholic philosophy of education and the classical philosophy of education, which have both been successfully adopted by Catholic schools for many centuries.