我们的学生与古希腊和罗马的文化融为一体，以更好地了解古典古代如何塑造并继续塑造当下。他们还建立了广泛的知识和实践技能：如何理解和学习外语和遥远的文化，如何分析论点，询问长期存在的假设，了解当代概念的古老根源，如何发展，交流和捍卫他们的想法。我们努力让学生参与有关价值，正义，美丽，力量和人类状况的长达一千年的对话，这就是苏格拉底著名的被检验生活。
We live in a rapidly changing, globally networked world. The problems we face in the twenty-first century-disparities of wealth and opportunity, environmental degradation, political deadlock-are as urgent as any in human history. Our students engage with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome to better understand how classical antiquity has shaped and continues to shape the present. They also build a wide range of intellectual and practical skills: how to make sense of and learn from foreign languages and distant cultures, how to analyze an argument, to interrogate a long-standing assumption, to see the ancient roots of contemporary concepts, how to develop, communicate, and defend their ideas. We strive to involve students in a millennia-long conversation about value, justice, beauty, power, and the human condition-what Socrates famously called the examined life.