Regents School of Oxford - A Classical Christian School

 
Our Mission

Regents School of Oxford, established in 2000, offers a classical and Christian education to students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.  Regents exists to empower teachers to shepherd children's hearts and minds, equipping students through classical methodology.  Students are taught to think logically, to communicate their conclusions persuasively, and to evaluate their beliefs through the Word of God to the end that they are prepared to serve His kingdom.  A part of the Oxford community for more than twelve years, Regents will hold its inaugural graduation the evening of May 10th, 2012.

Our Method

Regents uses a skills-based approach to education.  In short, we seek to develop the skills or disciplines that are part of our nature as image bearers of God.  The ancients summed up this approach with the word Trivium.  The word Trivium literally means the coming together of three paths or three streams.  In education, the developmental stages of children make up these paths:  grammar, logic, and rhetoric.  Grammar means the ability to symbolize our thoughts; logic is the ability to think our thoughts correctly; rhetoric is the ability to express our thoughts persuasively.  At Regents, with a Christ-centered approach, we walk our students down each of these paths to the point where they have the discipline to bring a subject together into something good, beautiful, and true.

Our Passion

A school is a place for children.  This not only means that we carefully select the content of our education, but, moreover, in educating, we celebrate the mind of the student in its different stages of development.  Because children are great at memorization and tend to articulate their thoughts very concretely, we help children develop the skill of learning the rules or techniques of symbolizing their world.  Thus, they will learn the facts of math and the rules of the English language.  We celebrate their imaginations as we fill their minds with rich stories, fairy tales, and the legends of western civilization.  Later, when children are at the age where they like to debate and argue, we turn our focus to the use of logic and the Socratic Method.  We teach young adolescents, struggling to become young men and women, to order their thoughts and discern wisely in a world of competing fallacies.  Finally, when students are in ninth through twelfth grades, we focus on the skill of persuasive arguments, writing, debates and speeches.  With this focus on rhetoric, students learn to write and speak eloquently and persuasively, preparing them for the disciplines ahead.

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