Aquinas Learning - Schola Parva

Aquinas Learning is a classical education mentoring program which guides students toward wisdom and virtue. Students meet once a week for a class day with their mentors and peers and, using materials and on-line support that we provide, continue the curriculum with their parents and siblings at home.

By studying the liberal arts and discussing the great ideas of Western civilization, in full communion with the Catholic Church, students develop a taste and love for what is true, good, and beautiful and the skills of thinking, writing, reading, speaking, and listening through:

· Good books (as a precursor to the Great Books) with Socratic discussions;

· Core subject discussions (catechism, history, science, and civics);

· Memory practice (Latin, grammar, timeline, and geography);

· Fine arts studies (music and art appreciation, chants, and art projects);

· Science experiments (exploring the spendor of order in God’s creation);

· Oral presentations (elocution, listening, and note-taking skills); and

· Language arts (IEW, grammar, diagramming, copy work, spelling, and
handwriting).

 Students form a habit of mind, that of being inquisitive, perceptive, ordered, and contemplative which leads to moral and intellectual virtue, right reason applied to right action following God’s will for them.