LCS Vision & Values

Our Vision

Building Christ’s Kingdom by equipping students to be wise, virtuous, and eloquent self-learners through a biblically based and academically excellent education toward the end of knowing and serving our Lord Jesus Christ, walking reverently and faithfully by the Spirit in this present age, to the glory of our God and Father. The Word of God teaches us the goal of all wisdom and knowledge is to glorify God: “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man” (Eccl. 12:9-13).

 Our Values

Loudoun Classical School seeks to provide a vigorous classical liberal arts education for our students and to create a thriving covenantal community of learners. We are gospel centered, grace saturated, and theologically reformed. We aim to help Christian parents fulfill their God-ordained responsibility to educate their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. We strive to demonstrate the love of the Triune God for our students by the way we teach, serve, and live from a whole heart. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” and “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ” (Matthew 22:37; Colossians 3:23-24).

Our Motto

Our school motto, Ordinans Amores, translated Ordering the Affections, is a summary statement of the aim of our instruction at Loudoun Classical School. Our Christian forefathers—most notably Augustine, Calvin, the Puritans, and Lewis—have written at great length about the priority of properly ordered affections in the life of the Christian. Even the ancient pagans understood that education without virtue is useless. The Holy Spirit through common grace taught Plato to say that education rightly understood is “that training which is given by suitable habits to the first instincts of virtue . . . rightly implanted in souls not yet capable of understanding the nature of them . . . leads you always to … love what you ought to love from the beginning of life to the end.” Ultimately, it is the special revelation of God’s word, illuminated by the Holy Spirit in our hearts that teaches us to love what God loves. Toward that end, ordering the affections to what ought to be loved is a main goal of our instruction, summed up in our key verse, Philippians 4:8, “Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.“