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Academics
How We’re Different
Virtues & Habits
Teaching Virtue at TCA Classical education provides students with the foundation to live a principled life. Equally as important as our quest for academic rigor and excellence is our pursuit of virtuous character in our young men and women. Virtue is at the core of all that happens at The Classical Academy, from the literature…
The Latin Advantage
By Mrs. Amy Olsen (Lower School Latin Teacher at TCA) Latin is the key to the vocabulary and structure of the Romance languages and to the structure of all the Teutonic languages, as well as to the technical vocabulary of all the sciences and to the literature of the entire Mediterranean civilization, together with all…
A Well-Trained Mind
A Well-Trained Mind for the 21st Century Learning Without Teaching to the Test Many schools today are limiting their course subjects to focus on succeeding on standardized tests. History, science and the arts have been victims of this reduction. What is a mass of information worth without clarity of fundamental principles? Classical education requires BOTH…
The Trivium
Classical education rests on the concept of the Trivium, Latin for “the three ways” of learning. The Trivium comprises three stages: grammar, logic and rhetoric – which correspond to a student’s naturally maturing mind.