If you’ve missed Part 1 and 2, catch those HERE and HERE.  Join us now as we now circle back to our graduates, the “end” we have in mind.   

We would like to share some comments from our graduates about the ways in which their classical Christian education transformed them and prepared them for the next chapter of life.

These six distinguishing features of a classical Christian education are meant to result in graduates that look different from those of modern progressive schools. The ideal graduates of a Classical Christian school should be marked by a noticeable refinement of manner and intellect. 

Graduates will be first and foremost committed to a Christian purpose in life and will love and live out the Christian virtues. They will be competent in language, mathematics, science, philosophy, and theology, and interested in studying them further. Graduates will think well, beginning from Christian presuppositions in all areas of his life. They will be wise and full of humility. They will know the Truth, love what is good, and live a life that cultivates true beauty in all aspects. 

Classical Christian Education starts with a different purpose because we are aiming for a different result. Rather than merely passing along information, we aim to see students shaped into competent, disciplined, articulate disciples of Christ.

John Milton, the 17th century English poet, author of “Paradise Lost” sums it up this way: 

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. 

That, my friends, is the purpose of Classical Christian Education: to shape students' hearts and minds so that they love what God loves and hate what God hates and are prepared to go out into the world looking different, ready to answer everyone who asks them to explain about the hope they have in Christ.     -Sarah Arensman, Head of Covenant Classical School