WHY CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATION?

It is academically enriching:

Classical education seeks to foster a love of learning in students.
The seven classical liberal arts of the trivium and quadrivium represent a process of mastering domains of knowledge.
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. (You might come up with the best idea in the world, but if you cannot communicate it persuasively, it may never catch on).
Conversation-based learning and Socratic dialogue about the Great Books increases levels of retention, comprehension, and mastery in students.
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.

It is Formative:

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

It is Historical & Time-Tested:

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

It is 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.
The furtherance of classical Lutheran education is essential to the preservation of the Lutheran church in training up young people in the Christian faith.
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.