Classical Education

Education centered on worship must necessarily be concerned with history. We therefore emphasize the classics of antiquity, medieval Christendom, and the modern era. We seek to provide a “classical education” in so far as this means to stand in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is and find rest for our souls (Jer. 6:16). We strive to build up the old waste places and to raise up the foundations of many generations, and be called the repairer of the breach and the restorer of paths (Is. 58:12). But in other ways, we also strive to rid ourselves of the past. “Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.” “Be ye not as your fathers...” (2 Chron. 30:8, Zech. 1:4) But the only way to rid ourselves of their follies and sin is to confess it before God in repentance as the people of God have done before. “And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.” (Neh. 9:2 cf. Dan. 9:6) Thus, we study the past because it is who we are today. However, we believe that we serve a God who also does new and different things. For this reason Atlas School studies the history and literature that has had the greatest impact on our culture though we see nothing inherently holy about old books, Latin paradigms, or ancient mythology.