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"Do you often come across people for whom, all their lives, a
'subject' remains a 'subject,' divided by watertight bulkheads
from all other 'subjects,' so that they experience very great
difficulty in making an immediate mental connection between
algebra and detective fiction, sewage disposal and the price of
salmon, or, more
generally, between such spheres of knowledge
as philosophy and
economics, or chemistry and art?"
The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers.
At Geneva Academy, our students are taught to see the world, not as a series of unrelated "subjects," as Miss Sayers laments above,
but rather to acquire the tools of learning so that they might be
equipped to become lifelong students of God's glorious creation.
We
seek to individually challenge children at all levels and
to teach them how to learn. Through a proven, centuries-old pattern
of education called the Trivium, students are taught using specific
methods which correlate to
their natural, God-given developmental stages. All
subjects are taught as parts of an integrated whole with scripture
at the center as students are encouraged to become "thinking
Christians" and to develop a solid, biblical, world view. 
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