Academics

Intellectual Formation

Students are provided a superior academic formation essential to their integral development and understanding of their social responsibility. Academic formation is the formation of the intellect; it consists of acquiring knowledge, developing intellectual capacities, properly using one’s ability to reason, and forming habits, attitudes, and skills so that students can be thinkers who analyze, synthesize, compare and contrast, judge, reflect, discern, and identify the truth. Overall, it is to form a disciplined intellect and love for truth, making one an intellectually mature person. Intellectual formation depends on an assimilation of rich content of the Christian faith, culture, science, and the arts.

Students are taught to apply and reflect on acquired life principles to guide their actions, to live in accord with those principles, and to express balanced judgments enlightened by truth. Intellectual formation is acquired throughout the school years and enables students to transmit this knowledge to others and use these skills throughout their lives. It places an emphasis on developing the imagination, creativity, originality and memory. In an environment where faith leads reason; academic formation takes place in a rigorous, challenging, and creative environment, utilizing a rich curriculum, the most up-to-date resources, and state-of-the-art technology.