SD Classical

Catholic Classical Education for San Diego County

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Who We Are

We are a group of Catholic parents with young children located all over San Diego County. We aim to raise our children to be faithful Catholics, critical thinkers, and servant leaders who will make positive contributions to society.

We firmly believe that we parents are the primary educators of our children, and that this education and formation starts primarily in the family and in the home.

To help us fulfill our God-given responsibility to form our children in faith and virtue, we hope to launch an independent, authentically Catholic classical school in San Diego County.

We firmly believe that for any school to be effective, there should be harmony between the intellectual and moral education received at school and the formation received at home. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:

“Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues. This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery — the preconditions of all true freedom. Parents should teach their children to subordinate the ‘material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones.’ Parents have a grave responsibility to give good example to their children. By knowing how to acknowledge their own failings to their children, parents will be better able to guide and correct them:

He who loves his son will not spare the rod…. He who disciplines his son will profit by him.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

— Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2223

What Is Classical Education?

Classical education is experiencing a revival in the field of education. The classical pedagogy is a tried-and-true teaching method that is rooted in the liberal arts. It uses the Trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) to follow the child’s natural course of intellectual development.

Classical education fosters in students a lifelong intellectual curiosity and love of learning. It teaches students to recognize and to pursue truth, goodness, and beauty. Classical education helps students become critical thinkers and creative problem solvers, which in turn helps them to excel both academically and morally.

For more about Classical Education, we recommend the following resources:

What Is Classical Education? — St. Monica Academy The Lost Tools of Learning (PDF) — Dorothy Sayers

Formation of the Whole Person

We believe in the education of the whole person — intellectual, moral, physical, and spiritual. We believe that the ultimate goal of education is to form men and women of character who are willing and able to use their freedom and talents to serve others.

We aim to launch a school that will assist parents in forming virtues in their children in an environment of freedom. This formation aims to foster respect for every person, a desire to serve God and others, and an optimistic and adventurous attitude towards life’s challenges.

Spiritual Formation & Sacramental Life

We plan to entrust our school’s sacramental and spiritual formation to Opus Dei, a Personal Prelature of the Catholic Church founded by St. Josemaría Escrivá. Opus Dei seeks to foster among men and women of every walk of life a deep awareness of their being children of God, and helps them to live their life accordingly. The formation given by the Prelature aims to help individuals respond freely to the universal call to holiness and apostolate in their ordinary work and place in society.

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Our Vision

Model Schools

Our inspiration has come from similar schools around the United States and in other countries around the world. The model schools listed below share several key characteristics: