So what, then, is classical education? Classical education is a chronologically synchronous education which, following the trivium, aims to develop the student in their ability to be a critical thinker such that they can enter into their cultural heritage, and thereby better understand their own lineage.
For five days in August of 1993, Colorado was aflame with the love of the Church. His Holiness, Pope John Paul II came to World Youth Day in Denver, and its impact has resonated upon the state and her denizens for decades after—many of us who live in Colorado (especially those lucky enough to have attended the event) were drawn irrevocably closer to the heart of Christ at witnessing the momentous occasion.
The desire that Catholic families in northern Colorado had displayed for nearly 40 years is now becoming a reality with the opening of the Chesterton Academy of St. John Paul II in Windsor in the Fall of 2020.
The selected candidate will teach the following to an inaugural 2020-2021 9th-grade class: Euclid’s Elements; analytical geometry; astronomy; and earth sciences/geology.