Welcome to St. Thomas Aquinas Classical Academy!
St. Thomas Aquinas Classical Academy was founded with a simple goal in mind: to educate our children for eternity! History and the Fathers of the Church teach us that this lofty goal is most efficiently and authentically accomplished by enriching the study of our world with the teachings and love of Holy Mother Church and those of St. Thomas Aquinas. By offering both an academy and a homeschool program, we hope to offer a community of Socratic and Thomistic learning for orthodox Catholics in Toledo! Although we are open to non-Catholic families, our Academy has been founded to provide a holy community for Catholics to learn about their Faith and to practice its traditions without compromise. A sincere openness to our Catholic Faith and her teachings and the desire to live a holy life are essential to being accepted into our Academy.
Classical Education
Classical education is a model of education which derives its structure and purpose from the seven liberal arts of ancient education (the Trivium and the Quadrivium), and includes the Western Canons of classical literature, the fine arts, the study of Latin and Greek, and the history and philosphy of ancient and Western civilization.
Susan Wise describes classical education as a model of learning which is "language-focused, meaning that learning is accomplished through words, both written and spoken, rather than through images (pictures, videos, television)." This distinction is important because it requires very different habits of thought, primarily in the virtue of the intellect. The study of the liberal arts requires the intellect to be an active, rather than passive, participant in the pursuit and understanding of truth, which provides not only knowledge but the ability to apply that knowledge in the understanding of other realities.
While the study of the classics is essential to the formation of the human person, a balance must exist between their instruction and their practice, or the fruits of such an education may be sacrificed. At St. Thomas Aquinas Classical Academy, we strive for this balance so that we may attend to the proper formation and ordering of each student's soul, disposing him/her to become a good citizen of both Heaven and earth.
Our Mission and Vision
Our Mission
To educate our children for Eternity by developing and forming our students in the classical liberal arts and sciences through a rigorous and richly Catholic curriculum to comprehend Truth; to appreciate, love, and reproduce the Beautiful; and to strengthen their wills to pursue the Good through virtuous action.
Our Vision
To restore our culture by forming our students to become holy disciples of our Catholic Faith, in the pursuit of charity and justice for our world, by developing strong language and reasoning skills, an understanding of God’s creation and of His Natural Laws, and an appreciation and preservation of the rich inheritance of Western Civilization.