We expect graduates to argue clearly and cogently in favor of righteousness and truth, to shine the light of God-given reason on the flimsy shadow of convenience and folly, to educate by raising up, to challenge by taking people by the hand and walking with them, while leaning on the word of God as their prime support.
Cicero taught us that rhetoric is “a good man, speaking well.” Solomon said that “a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.” PCS students study languages. We parse; we diagram; we write; we speak. We master our mother tongue and the languages underlying it. We learn to eloquently employ vocabulary, grammar, usage, style and persuasion through the study of English, Latin, Spanish, Greek and Rhetoric. Language is a gift from God, and the Scriptures refer to his Son as the Word. Therefore, we take words seriously from kindergarten forward.
