Classical Christian Education

Classical Christian Education is a model of teaching that brings the past into the future. It is about equipping children for the future with what has been successful in the past. Classical education stretches back to the classical Greek civilization, just prior to Christ. The methods matured during the Western Christian era and the Middle Ages, then came to full flowering in the Renaissance.

The Trivium model consists of three stages: Grammar stage, dialectic stage and Rhetoric stage. Dorothy Sayers comments, that through the Trivium approach to education we are "teaching with the grain." In 1947, Oxford writer Dorothy Sayers, wrote an article titled, "The Lost Tools of Learning." This article emphasizes the goal of giving our children the educational tools to both learn and think for themselves.

The aim of Grace Extension Program is to partner with families to help graduate young men and women who think clearly and listen carefully with discernment and understanding; who reason persuasively and articulated precisely; who are capable of evaluating their entire range of experience in the light of the Scriptures; and who do so with eagerness in joyful submission to God. We likewise aim to cultivate these same qualities in our staff. Our teachers love what they are doing; they are diligent in their work, gifted in teaching, and loving their students and the subjects they teach.