The classical Christian education offered at schools like Veritas Academy is different than the modern education offered at so many other (public, private, and Christian schools). Sometimes these differences are harder to see because some of what the kids are doing looks similar--eating lunch, reading books, doing math problems. The aims, however, are often radically different. Modern education is often aimed eventually (and sometimes almost immediately) at technical training. Classical education is pointed toward giving a student very broad skills that prepare them for live, for freedom, and for whatever calling God places on their lives. Here is article from a friend, Mrs Cheryl Lowe, from the Highland's Latin School in Louisville on Latin and Math in a classical education. It is a good read:
