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As a classical, Christian school,
St. Stephen’s Academy aims to
provide an academically
excellent education in
a grace-filled environment that
develops Christian character
and equips students with
tools of learning that will
last a lifetime.

 


 

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“The gift of knowledge is a life-long blessing. The skill of discernment is critical for life-directing choices. The building of a child’s character satisfies a parent’s duty to pass on values. The teachers and staff at St. Stephen’s Academy are able partners to these tasks, and we are pleased to call them ‘family’.”

Rick DeNeffe

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Christian Affiliations

St. Stephen's Academy is a public ministry of Evergreen Presbyterian Church, PCA

Evergreen is a member congregation in the Presbyterian Church in America

Classical Christian Education

Dorothy Sayers' Essay on The Lost Tools of Learning — The essay that sparked classical Christian education. Dorothy Sayers, a contemporary and fellow Inkling with C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, proposed that rather than teach children "subjects," we teach children how to learn.

The Well-Trained Mind — A Guide to Classical Education at Home, by Susan Wise Bauer.  Provides a good explanation of classical methodology.

Association of Classical and Christian Schools — The primary mission of this association is to promote, establish and equip schools committed to a classical approach to education in light of a Christian worldview grounded in the Old and New Testament Scriptures.

Why Classical Education? — "In modern education, we have put the proverbial cart before the horse by expecting students to master a great number of subjects before they have mastered the tools of learning..."

Educational Resources

Schola Classical Tutorials — "Offers live group tutorials over the internet in the subjects of a classical liberal arts curriculum: the classical languages, the great books of literature and history, and rhetoric."

Great Works

The Online Medieval and Classical Library — "A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization."

Christian Classics Ethereal Library — From Augustine to Wesley, from the early church fathers in the first century to Billy Graham in the 20th century.

The Internet Classics Archive — This contains 441 classics from antiquity (mostly Greco-Roman).

The Well-Trained Mind List of Great Books — This contains a list of great works broken down by grade (9th - 12th), and are mainly divided by complexity.

Project Gutenberg — Now that you have your list of Great Books (from the line above), you can search for it.  Note: these are only books in the free domain (pre-20th century for the most part).