The purpose of Grace Academy is to assist parents in providing for their children a distinctively Christian education.  Because we recognize that all knowledge comes from God, we are committed to integrating the truth of Scripture into every aspect of the program and to training children to think biblically about every area of life. Because we recognize that God expects the very best from His people, we are committed to high academic quality.

In applying the classical approach in the classroom, Grace Academy’s teachers strive to follow the following principles (These principles are enumerated and explained by John Milton Gregory in The Seven Laws of Teaching, revised edition (1917, original 1884), reprinted by Baker Book House, 1993.):

1. 1. The Law of the Teacher: The teacher must know that which he would teach; therefore, know thoroughly, clearly, and familiarly the lesson you wish to teach. 

   2. The Law of the Learner: The learner must attend with interest to the material to be learned; therefore, gain and keep the attention and interest of the pupils on the lesson. Do not try to teach without attention.

   3. The Law of the Language: The language used in teaching must be common to teacher and learner; therefore, use words understood in the same way by the pupils and yourself.

   4. The Law of the Lesson: The truth to be taught must be learned through truth already known; therefore, begin with what is already well known to the pupil about the subject, and proceed to the new material by single, easy, and natural steps.

   5. The Law of the Teaching Process: Teaching is arousing and using the pupil's mind to grasp the desired thought or to master the desired art; therefore, stimulate the pupil's own mind to action. Keep his thought as much as possible ahead of your expression, placing him in the attitude of a discoverer and anticipator.

   6. The Law of the Learning Process: The student must reproduce in his own mind the truth to be learned; therefore, require the pupil to reproduce in thought the lesson he is learning---thinking it out in its various phases and applications until he can express it in his own language.

   7. The Law of Review and Application: The completion, test, and confirmation of the work of teaching must be made by review and application; therefore, review, review, review, reproducing the old, deepening its impression with new thought, linking it with added meanings, finding new applications, correcting any false views, and completing the true.

Our philosophy of education rests on the following three fundamental principles:

God, the Creator of heaven and earth, cannot be rightly separated from history, literature, mathematics, science, or any other academic discipline. The whole range and content of education must be centered on God and His Word, so that students develop a thoroughly Biblical view of all of life. True knowledge is impossible without recognition of God (Proverbs 1:7; Romans 1:18-23).

Man's chief purpose is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever (Psalm 73:25-28; 1 Corinthians 10:31). In His providence and goodness, God has bestowed on mankind the ability to explore, investigate, and discover truths about the universe, in order to exercise dominion over it and to bring Him glory. Christian education must diligently strive to develop each individual's God-given capacities so that they may be used to God's glory.

Parents are to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord (Deuteronomy 6:4-7; Ephesians 6:4). The primary responsibility for education rests not on the school, but on the parents to whom children are entrusted by God. Parents are responsible before God for both the spiritual and academic quality of their child’s education; nevertheless, it is proper for parents to associate with others in this task, and enlist the aid of Christians especially equipped with the gift of teaching.