Our Mission
The mission of Hampton Roads Classical is to cultivate intellectual, moral, and civic virtue in each student, through a rigorous American classical education that disciplines the mind to a lifelong pursuit of wisdom grounded in the objective standards of truth, goodness, and beauty intrinsic to the human spirit.
It is our firm belief that such virtues are necessary to understand what it is to be fully human and are required to accept the privileges and responsibilities of American citizenship in a free and just society.
Our Vision
Through strong partnership with like-minded families, we follow a back-to-basics approach that helps children become independent (free) thinkers who can govern themselves with a moral compass. We strive to prepare students who will become the future guardians of the American republic to lead responsible, independent, and successful lives.
Educational Philosophy
We believe that the acquisition of wisdom and the cultivation of virtue are the central tasks of education. Your child will be immersed in an educational philosophy that espouses a high view of mankind with acknowledgement of objective standards of truth, goodness, and beauty.
Classical: Rooted in the time-honored trivium arts of grammar, the study of the nature of a subject; dialectic (logic), that of thought and reason; and rhetoric, that of artful persuasion - these were the “tools of learning” considered in classical Greece and Rome to be the pillars of critical thought.
Traditional: Knowledge-centered education rooted in the liberal arts and sciences with a focus on teacher led instruction and tried and true methods that result in mastery of content.
American: An emphasis on the Western tradition and America's founding principles, with the goal to develop freethinking, responsible individuals capable of functioning as self-governing citizens in a constitutional republic.
A virtue-based ethos, embodied by the four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, exemplified by our teachers and expected of our students.
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”