CHOIR SCHOOL

We want boys to achieve a high level of cultural literacy for their age. At a level accessible to each Year Group, boys encounter ‘the best that has been known and said'. In English, they learn to memorise great poems by Shakespeare, Milton, Eliot and Rosetti, among many others; in science, they study the great scientists and inventors; in art and music they study the masters... We want boys to recognise what is beautiful, true and good, and to see the relations between these three qualities in what they study and the world around them. To do this we teach them how to think, based on the trivium of grammar, logic and rhetoric. As one medieval writer put it: ‘grammar is the knowledge of how to speak without error; logic is clear-sighted argument which separates the true from the false; rhetoric is the discipline of persuading to every suitable thing'... Like Gerard Manley Hopkins we believe that the Catholic faith has ‘only to be known, to be loved', and we aim to teach and share it..

Primary location: Library United States