Students must understand themselves and the world around them. One can hardly imagine such a student bereft of a historical consciousness. If self knowledge has educational priority—and it does—then, students who live under the aegis of the Western world must learn western history. At St. Theresa Catholic School, significant time, then, is devoted to Greek, Roman and Medieval history.
History is not a mere curious interest in the past; history instantiates models both noble and ignoble. We study history because we believe there are important lessons to learn from the past. The students of St Theresa Catholic School will be well equipped to think through the challenges of the present precisely because they will have received an education which is so insistent on the importance of the past.