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The St. Anthony Academy Difference
Progressive education was introduced in the late nineteenth century, and after more than a century of its use, it has become clear to many that it is a failure. This failure has spurred an interest in classical education, with the goal of restoring the great traditions of Western Christian civilization. Classical schools are springing up everywhere, and they are a refreshing change from the disastrous trends of modern education.
St. Anthony Academy follows this same classical model of education that is seeing a resurgence; however, since the greatest traditions of Western civilization were Catholic, we believe that a truly classical school must be Catholic. And as a truly Catholic school, it must follow the traditions that have enlivened the Faith for centuries.
Recognizing this, St. Anthony Academy teaches exclusively the rich and unchanging professions of the Catholic Faith: the Baltimore catechism, the traditional Rosary, and traditional devotions. As an independent school, we are free to adhere to the timeless teachings of the Church with no fear of forced progressive implementations.
Since this task of restoring Christian culture is a formidable one, we incorporate the following principles into the everyday classical education of our students: To pray much, especially the Rosary, putting great confidence in Our Lady; to learn and live the traditional doctrine and morals of the Catholic Church; to adhere to the traditional Latin Mass where the Catholic Faith and devotion are found in their fullness; to resist with all one’s soul the liberal trends wreaking havoc on the Mystical Body of Christ.
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What is Classical Education?
What is Classical Education?
What is Classical Education?
Andrew Kern, co-author of Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America, defines classical education as the cultivation of wisdom and virtue by nourishing the soul on the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.
The Whole Truth
What is Classical Education?
What is Classical Education?
The highest use of the great masters of literature is not literary; it is apart from their superb style and even from their emotional inspiration.
Classical and Christian
What is Classical Education?
Classical and Christian
The roots of classical education stretch back to the classical Greek civilization, just prior to Christ. The methods matured during the Western Christian era, the Middle Ages and came to full flowering in the Renaissance.
Trivium Education
The Lost Tools of Learning
Classical and Christian
As the disciplines of General Grammar, Aristotelian Logic, and Classical Rhetoric are learned and practiced together, they form the overarching, symbiotic system for establishing clarity and consistency of personal thought called the Trivium.
The Lost Tools of Learning
The Lost Tools of Learning
The Lost Tools of Learning
If we are to produce a society of educated people, fitted to preserve their intellectual freedom amid the complex pressures of our modern society, we must turn back the wheel of progress some four or five hundred years, to the point at which education began to lose sight of its true object...
Memoria Press
The Lost Tools of Learning
The Lost Tools of Learning
Classical education for all ages, including curriculum, phonics and spelling, science, and more.
Great Books, Higher Education, and the Logos
Rediscovering the Lost Power of Reading Aloud
Rediscovering the Lost Power of Reading Aloud
The ends of higher education are the acquisition of wisdom and virtue and the serious pursuit of knowledge and truth. Reading the Great Books helps us to get to these ends. Informed by the wisdom, the beauty, the goodness, and the truth we encounter in Great Books, we can responsibly and humanely practice our vocation in life…
Rediscovering the Lost Power of Reading Aloud
Rediscovering the Lost Power of Reading Aloud
Rediscovering the Lost Power of Reading Aloud
Once upon a time, none of these stories had yet been fixed on a page (or a clay tablet), but were carried in the physical bodies of the people who committed them to memory. Long before Johannes Gutenberg and his printing press, and 1,000 years before cloistered monks and their illuminated manuscripts, the principal storage facility for history, poetry, and folktales was the human head. And the chief means of transmitting that cultural wealth, from generation to generation, was the human voice...