The time tested method of the Trivium gives students more than book knowledge. A classical education thoroughly informed by the Trivium gives students the tools of learning and makes them learners for life. As was so important to great and educated men like Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and Jonathan Edwards, students first seek to master language, math basics and a whole host of factual items. 

Veritas Academy students have an exceptional background in foreign language. In 2nd grade students begin their study of Latin. The typical Veritas student has memorized 160 of the most important events (and details surrounding them) in history, 160 biblical events, 4500 vocabulary words including 750 Latin word roots and has substantially mastered English grammar. And that is all by the end of 6th grade. They take Latin every year through 7th grade. Students are also required to do two years of Koine Greek in 8th and 9th grade. After that, students move on to further study in Latin or Greek or additional studies in modern foreign languages, such as Spanish and French.

In the 7th grade students begin a program called the Omnibus. It combines history, theology and literature quite similar to Mortimer Adler’s Great Books Program. In the Omnibus, 7th grade students read books like Aeneid, the Odyssey and Herodotus’s Histories, they study formal and informal logic, Algebra I, and Latin and continue to develop their writing skills by writing about a multitude of topics, fictional, and non-fictional. Of course, the curriculum continues to progress in 8th through 12th grades, culminating in a 50 page Senior Thesis that is defended orally in front of a panel of experts.

Listen to what Chuck Colson has to say about classical, Christian education in "Defending the Faith".