Education Comparison
CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
- Christ-centered education
- Education for formation
- Development of critical thinking – “Why?”
- Emphasis on the true, good and beautiful
- Truth is objective, knowable and absolute
- Integrated interdisciplinary learning
- Requires the student to learn how to learn
- Lifelong love of learning as the ultimate goal
MODERN EDUCATION
- Man-centered education
- Education for information
- Development of correct procedures –“How?”
- Emphasis on politically correct
- Self-actualization, personal peace and affluence
- Fragmented and disjointed learning
- Requires the student to learn how to pass tests
- Graduation as the ultimate goal
Even as your child is entering grade school it is important to look forward to their future and do all you can to prepare them for high school and college. While there are other more important goals of a classical education, statistics show that students who have a classical education score much higher scores on the SAT, ACT, and PSAT. For the graduating class of 2010, classically educated students averaged 114 points higher than the rest of the nation on the reading portion of the SAT. In math, classical students scored 76 points higher than all other types of education, and in writing they scored 109 points higher.
PSAT scores demonstrate the same conclusion: classically educated children receive the best test scores of every education method in the nation. The classically educated class of 2010 scored 12 points higher in reading, 6.6 points higher in math, and 12.9 points higher in writing.
Classically educated students also score higher on the ACT than students at all other kinds of schools. They scored 6.7 points higher in English, 4.1 points higher in math, 5.6 points higher in reading, and 3 points higher in science.
Data from 2009 ACCS survey of member schools.
PSAT: The ACCS Average represents scores from 378 students in 35 schools.
SAT: The ACCS average represents scores from 209 students in 30 schools.
ACT: The ACCS average represents scores form 147 students in 22 schools.
- Classical Model
- What is Classical?
- Education Comparison
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- Why Rhetoric
- Why Latin
- Classical Resources
Pro9:10 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
