Our Mission
The mission of The Terra Nova school is to enculturate students as citizens of God’s kingdom, by partnering with parents in discipling their children through a Christ-centered and classical education, firmly established on scripture, and by cultivating wisdom, virtue, and eternal influence.
What do we mean by "enculturate?"
We are passing along the entire culture of God’s kingdom.
“Education comes from the Latin word, but the original Greek word used in the New Testament was paideia. An education that was true paideia meant not just passing along ideas but enculturation: passing along the entire culture. What culture was being passed along? It was the culture of the Church, which sought to cultivate piety, virtue, and wisdom, as the students would grow in the grace of Christ. And it is for this goal of passing along a culture that the curriculum existed.”
CLARK AND JAIN, THE LIBERAL ARTS TRADITION
Our Vision
SANCTIFICATION.
We aim to graduate young men and women who are rooted in and delight in God’s Word, who daily behold Christ and submit to His Lordship, who seek to see His glory revealed in all of life, and who by the work of God alone, have grown in personal holiness.
WORK-ETHIC.
We desire our graduates to be disciplined, to be hard-working, to persevere through challenges and to pursue excellence in their work and duties.
LOVE OF LEARNING WITH HUMILITY.
Our hope is that our graduates would be prepared with the essential tools of learning and be marked by humility, finding joy in the lifelong pursuit of learning in this world and in the new earth to come.
BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW.
We desire our students to have a robust knowledge of God, man and creation in order to develop biblical understanding and to be equipped to face the challenges in the world around them with prudence and boldness.