Educational Purpose Statement

Grounded in the ideals of the Society of Jesus, I seek to educate the whole person intellectually, morally, and spiritually. I teach classical languages and culture to bring my students into contact with the great minds of Western civilization, and thus to enhance their understanding of their own culture and themselves. My students reap the benefits with both a greater facility with the structure and vocabulary of their own language and the occasion to encounter the rich corpus of classical texts. Through an examination of the users of the classical languages—from both Ancient Greece and Rome and the Catholic Church—my students have the opportunity to investigate the roots of Western culture. Informed by the writings of the likes of Plato and Aristotle, Homer and Vergil, Herodotus and Livy, Demosthenes and Cicero, and Augustine and Aquinas; students are exposed not only to significant historical figures and events but also to the profound ideas that have helped to shape the world in which they live.