Our people write about classical Christian education.
Every school has a set of foundational beliefs and principles that governs its content and practices. What are the spoken and unspoken assumptions and principles that govern all that we do at Capstone? In First Things, our teachers, staff, and leadership write about the foundational principles of classical and Christian education.
Our definition of classical Christian education starts with a pursuit of wisdom through a cultivation of intellectual virtue (which must be taught, unlike the moral virtues). In a sense, wisdom is both the end and the means of classical education, and in classical Christian education, Christ is the embodiment of wisdom.
Paul Fisher
Headmaster
"What is classical Christian education?" It's the question I get asked most, and sometimes I wish it had a more succinct answer. Over the next few articles, I hope to unpack the answer to that seminal question, and spotlight the vital, missional aspects of what we do here at Capstone--namely shape virtue and a love for God in our students.
Paul Fisher
Headmaster
Schools were never meant to be a child's primary source of education. The home is the educational flagship—not schools. When God sets the educational standards, his focus is upon the formation of students’ minds, hearts, and souls in intact families (Deut. 6:4-9). We want our school to be an extension of your home in such a way that your children find continuity between what you are teaching them, the habits of your family life, and what we are teaching them, and the habits of their school life.
Paul Fisher
Headmaster
We are training minds to see more of God’s nature and will through all of their studies, not just in Bible classes and chapel services. We know that all that we study was created for and through Christ and that all things are held together by Him (Colossians 1:16-17). So we look for his glory in everything.
Paul Fisher
Headmaster
I believe we all take seriously our covenant commitment to respect the parent’s sovereign role and the teacher’s good intentions and to treat one another as allies rather than adversaries. I believed this before our school ever opened based simply upon the assumption of good faith when we all signed up for this growing ministry. I believe it now because I’ve seen it in action.
Paul Fisher
Headmaster