Trivium Academy offers classes and tutoring with a classical curriculum to homeschool students ages 8-18. Our mission is to provide classical education with a content-based curriculum aimed at mastery. Our purpose is to teach students how to speak, write, and think well and to live free and virtuous lives.

In classical education, a student learns how to relate facts into a unified, organic whole. But facts cannot be unified into conceptual frameworks unless they are first known and understood. Therefore, a good education requires knowledge and understanding of facts and a focus on content. Many schools fail precisely because they try to teach concepts without facts and how to understand them.

Grammar, logic, and rhetoric are the means of acquiring, understanding, and organizing knowledge. This knowledge is to make a student understand and wish to pursue the true, the good, and the beautiful.

Our educational philosophy is based on the concept of cultural literacy: the ability to understand and participate in a culture which aims to develop minds and their abilities through content knowledge. Culture elevates and improves. It does not merely entertain or amuse. Aristotle believed that the purpose of education is to make a student like or dislike what he ought. This is summarized in our motto. Scire velle optanda: to know how to want that which ought to be wanted.

Our curriculum is based on the Classical Learning Test Author bank. Older students read these authors directly. Younger students are taught the knowledge and skills needed to understand them.