Classical Education strives to put excellent literature into the hands, hearts, minds of its students. Here at Grace Classical Academy, early elementary years include exposure to Aesop's Fables, all manner of fairy tales, Bible stories, and Greek & Roman myths.
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” ~C.S. Lewis
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” ~C.S. Lewis
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." ~Albert Einstein
"If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales." ~G. K. Chesterton
"Fairy tales don't tell children that dragons exist, children already know that. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." ~G. K. Chesterton
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." ~Mark Twain
“If we work upon marble, it will perish. If we work upon brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men’s immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.” ~Daniel Webster
