Boise Classical Academy

“They write wild and pointless articles and letters in the press about why the churches are empty, without even going there to find out if they are empty…” Chesterton complaining about no fact checking in the early 1900’s and artificial problem making. (The Everlasting Man)

At BCA we want to illuminate and understand what is Good, True, and Beautiful. We teach the Good in building Christ-like character, the Truth through God's Word, and the Beautiful in seeing God's hand in all things that leads us to worship.

‘You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.’ Madeleine L'Engle

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” ― John Locke

CS Lewis reading advice: Every other book you read should be an old one.

‘A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.’ –Thomas Carruthers

"A good student frequently becomes a teacher, and so, too, a good reader becomes an author." - Mortimer J. Adler

“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.” Immanuel Kant

"A Step Ahead" starts next week! Invite your friends to register for a class or two with you!

“Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!” ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

“By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.” ― C.S. Lewis,

“When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.” - Mark Twain.

“The price of greatness is responsibility.” — Winston Churchill.

'Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?' DorothySayers

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” - CS Lewis

“A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.” —  George Bernard Shaw,

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ― Socrates

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

“This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. ” ― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress