Athletics Program
Beauty and the Fine Arts
Classes offered at each grade level

Although it is possible to learn the content of many subjects by simple instruction, it is precisely in the way these subjects are learned that the perfection of one's reason is achieved. At The Lyceum, the "Socratic seminar" method is adopted in all classes. To a great extent, and whenever the subject matter is within their capacity, students read either original texts or excerpts from original texts. These texts, written by the greatest minds of Western Civilization, teach both by content and example. As students of these original teachers sit around tables rather than at desks, they are encouraged to take part in class discussions. Lyceum tutors do not lecture, but carefully guide and coach these discussions. In this way, students at The Lyceum learn to think for themselves and to adopt the tools of learning that will last them throughout their lives.

We believe that students learn to think for themselves most effectively when encouraged to participate actively in their own intellectual formation. For this reason, the school places emphasis on the reading and subsequent discussion of primary texts - "the best that has been thought or said". Students gain a rich and deep understanding of the great books of western civilization by discussing these texts under the careful direction of their tutors. Lyceum graduates enter college with minds already provoked by the seminal ideas of great thinkers, ready to articulate and defend the reasons for their own intellectual positions.

see also...
What is a Classical Education?