Reason Three for a Classical School

My final point regarding why a Christ-centered school benefits from employing the classical model centers around the very nature of knowledge itself. Namely, that all knowledge, indeed all history, math and science, ultimately everything happening everywhere in the entire Universe is centered in Jesus Christ. Consider Col. 1:16-18. "For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist."

The Christian understands that there is a point to it all, that Truth is a person, and that at the center stage of all of the "space time continuum" is Golgotha and the crucifixion of Jesus. In Ephesians 1:10, Paul writes of God, "that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him." (NKJV)

The classical school does not view its mission as simply the dissemination of disconnected and independent facts. Rather, it understands the centrality of synthesis and unification, not only within subject matters, but across them. Can it be that "if it is true for you it is true for you and if it is true for me it is true for me" if we hold diametrically opposed concepts regarding the same subject? This is one of the most basic tenets of the post-modernist (and incidentally one of the easiest to refute), and the classical method does not settle for this inconsistent relativism. It would have the student search for universal, unifying truth. Here is where, again, if an education is to be Christ-centered, being classical is of value, because the well-trained classical mind might say with C.S. Lewis- “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” If a mind is looking to put it all together, Christ is at the center. The classical method inherently looks for the center, and in that sense, I believe it is looking for Christ.