Classical Christian Education

Summit Classical Christian School is Pre-K-12 Christian liberal arts school in the classical tradition. We seek to teach an integrated worldview with all academic subjects finding their purpose in Christ and His Scriptures.

Classical

The recovery of classical education was sparked by Dorothy Sayers’ 1940 essay “The Lost Tools of Learning.” This led to a radical shift in Christian education that has continued to this day. We believe that a holistic education requires the cultivation of the language arts of the Trivium–grammar, logic, rhetoric–and the mathematical arts of the Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music). The classical liberal arts curriculum was designed for cultivating virtue and the moral imagination.

Christian

We believe that all knowledge comes from Christ and every academic subject is a means to Christian wisdom and piety. While we believe that college and occupation preparation is valuable, the most important measure of success is that our relationships with God, our neighbors and our communities are marked by virtue and grace. For Summit, the liberal arts are formed within the context of a thoroughly Christian philosophy and theology governed by the revelation of God in Christ Jesus as found in the Holy Scriptures.