“Authentic beauty unlocks the yearning of the human heart, the profound desire to know, to love, to go towards the Other, to reach for the Beyond.”
Pope Benedict XVI
Why St. Augustine’s?
St. Augustine’s is a classical homeschool curriculum which immerses the student into Catholic culture, tradition, and truths that have been transmitted by Christ for over 2,000 years.
St. Augustine’s combines in-class learning experiences 2-3 days per week with a staff of exceptional Catholic tutors, while 2-3 days are dedicated to studies at home. St. Augustine’s is the perfect bridge for families who want Catholic excellence within the classroom and in the home, while not compromising or diminishing the primary goal of homeschooling, nor replacing the primary educator, the parent.
At St. Augustine’s we equip our students with the tools they need to succeed in college and beyond. Several of our graduates have gone on to win scholarships at schools such as Benedictine College, Franciscan University, Hillsdale College, and the University of Michigan.
Vision Statement
St. Augustine’s was founded to unite the best of the modern home school with the tradition of a Catholic liberal arts education. The goal of Catholic liberal arts education is to understand how everything humans can ever know fits together in a coherent image of God’s universe and how He wants us to live in it. Such learning must be lived and carried into the heart as well as the mind.
At St. Augustine’s the goodness of our students and their families is the foundation of our program. Our families love the good, the true and the beautiful and want their children to better know these aspects of God’s grace. They are dedicated homeschoolers who want a structured and systematic foundation they can reinforce and expand upon in the home. They remain the primary educators of their children.
The students read original texts and engage in seminar-style discussions, from the Middle School onward, but all students explore ideas and their repercussions. What is learned in class is then carried on in the home school through reading, writing, and problem-solving assignments that become a focus of family culture.
Our tutors, deeply educated in the vast heritage of Catholic truths and culture, help the students build an ever-richer picture of God’s world from the 1st to 12th grade. Since love and knowledge grow together, Literature and History are at the heart of our curriculum. These subjects detail man’s greatest hopes, and loves, and failings, when taught at any grade level. Latin, and in the middle and upper levels, Logic, Philosophy and Scripture lead children ever more deeply into the mind of the Church and the truths she teaches and embodies. Science, Math and Writing, at all levels provide languages to describe both the patterns of reality and our imagination.
Yet beyond ideas are the great men and women whose lives change millions of others by their correspondence to grace. When we come to know man’s history, we are humbled and inspired by how God provided for our ancestors, both by revelation and the natural law. We learn to admire their greatness even while we are cautioned by their errors, for they tell us so much about our own time.
