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Pursuing Wisdom

- in the Fear of God through a Classical Curriculum

The bible tells us that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.  All pursuit of wisdom outside this foundation is vanity.


Classical education is a long tradition that has emphasized seeking truth, goodness, and beauty and studying the liberal arts and the great books.  What are the liberal arts?  They are grammar, logic, rhetoric (the verbal arts of the trivium), arithmetic, geometry, music , and astronomy (the mathematical arts of the quadrivium).  Classical education also includes the study of Latin.  The study of the these subjects in the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty teaches students how to learn, how to think, and how to pursue wisdom.

It is precisely this kind of education that has produced countless great leaders, inventors, scientists, writers, philosophers, theologians, physicians, lawyers, artists and musicians over the centuries.  Classical education never really disappeared, but it did diminish starting around 1900 with the advent of progressive education.  In an effort to restore this most proven form of education, the liberal arts traditions has been renewed and expanded again over the last thirty years.  We endeavor to renew this classical tradition in our Scholé Group. 

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Discovering Delight

- in Restful Learning

As our name implies, we value the concept of "restful learning.”  The word scholé (pronouced skoh-LAY) comes from a Greek word that means "restful learning,"  with the connotation of "contemplation," "conversation," and "reflection."  Scholé is also the basis for our English word “school," but this modern term has lost the connotation of restfulness.  Progressive education often cultures a learning experience that is frenetic, as students and teachers rush to "cover" required material.  As a result, students tend to learn to cram, pass, and forget.  Even within the classical tradition, it is easy to find ourselves approaching education from a state of stress, striving anxiously to recover a rich tradition and thus missing the great depth it offers.  We may rest and have peace in all our activity, because Christ has accomplished our righteousness and secured our future.

We believe excellence in academics need not be frenetic.  Instead, allowing the concept of scholé to guide our teaching practices, we pursue restful learning by modeling peace, love of the subject, and unrushed learning.  It is important to note that restfulness does not mean idleness.  Instead, it means that we pursue depth instead of breadth, valuing contemplation and conversation over merely "covering" a wide range of material.  We seek meaningful engagement of fewer books and concepts so that learning becomes enjoyable and memorable.  We dig deep into classical subjects so that our students experience refreshment as their studies come alive.  Through a scholé pedagogy, our families discover delight in learning.

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Growing Together

- in Christ as a Community of Learners

We are seeking to recover an approach to education that few - if any - of us experienced ourselves.  As such, it is sometimes difficult to see the path ahead of us, and our process is often one of trial and error.  Recovering the classical tradition and the scholé approach is only made possible by collaboration, which is why we have formed a Scholé Group community.  Furthermore, real community is only possible in Christ as believers in Christ love one another as Jesus has loved them.  We are united by our commitment to pursuing restful, classical education for our children, and we gather together to share our gifts, experience, and learned wisdom with one another in pursuit of this goal.


As a Scholé Group, we are also connected to a vibrant community of adult and student learners through the Scholé Groups network.  Scholé Groups offers guidance on how to pursue restful, classical education and provides practical resources for actualizing these goals in homeschools and homeschool communities.  In addition, the Scholé Groups network functions as a platform for collaboration between Scholé Groups across the globe.  Together, we grow toward the ideal of deep, meaningful education.

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