It is critically important for parents to remember that, according to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, they are ultimately responsible for their children’s education. Children do not belong to teachers, schools, the community, or the government. A school’s only purpose is to enter into a partnership with the family in a very narrow, and delegated...Read More
The Regina Academies go beyond vague talking points about about how education prepares kids for college and career, to emphasize the critical importance of a Catholic education on the intellectual AND religious formation of children.Read More
The Regina Academies have high academic expectations for our students, but rigor and leisure are not mutually exclusive. If anything, leisure, properly understood, is the complement to rigor.Read More
The mission of Catholic classical schools like the Regina Academies is first and foremost to nurture better human beings by forming their moral imagination in faith and reason. Lest parents fear that their children will not receive the education they need for success in life (the failed promise of public education), an education that forms...Read More
Carlo is the perfect model of virtue for young people today. He was a typical teen who loved to play soccer, loved video games, action films and animals. His motto, however, “To always be close to Jesus” was indeed extraordinary.Read More
For millennia, the trivium has remained the most effective structure for educational success. It prepares students for lifelong learning because if provides the tools necessary to become self-learners.Read More
In Catholic classical schools wonder is encouraged as an essential part of learning. It is made the center of a child’s motivation. Through wonder students are guided to a greater understanding of themselves as God’s unique creation, and to the magnificent design of the world around them.Read More
If piety is the generous response to God’s spiritual blessings, patriotism is a generous response to the gift of our homeland that has formed our national character.Read More
Public education only appears to be free. Its ultimate cost is immeasurable if it results in a child being stolen away from their family and losing the greatest opportunity they could ever have… the opportunity to grow in faith and holiness, and to learn to be truly free in Jesus Christ.Read More
If the WHY of a classical education is to form joyful saints, then student’s potential becomes boundless, because they are formed open to God's grace.Read More
Progressive education’s academic elites continue to fail the most disadvantaged with innovation in education the promises provide a better education for students, the latest of which has been Common Core. The Association of Christian Classical Schools (ACCS) has published research that shows how much better classically educated students do on standardized tests compared to those...Read More
St. John Paul II began the 13th of his 14 encyclical letters, Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason) with a beautiful image of the importance of both faith and reason in humanity’s quest for truth. He said that: “Faith and reason are like two wings upon which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God...Read More
During the summer, conversations around the pool, at the beach, and with family and friends almost always seem to gravitate toward our children and their schools, and the inevitable question of why families would give their children a Catholic classical education at a small school like one of the Regina Academies. Here are a few...Read More
As the defining moment of human history, and the event that illuminates the mystery of humanity, the Incarnation is the curriculum of a Catholic liberal education.Read More
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