The Ancient Greek Tradition of education, which has become the foundation of so much, held that the initial formation was the “paideia”: primarily musical and gymnastic. Our whole education is coordinated to form students in these two directions,  the trades component in particular offers a valuable experience of the servile arts, which are necessary and noble and yet our goal is to form the whole human person towards Christ in a balanced way. This means that the fine arts must also have their place.  We want to avoid “the weak-chested intellectual” but also on the other hand to balance the rough and arduous dignity of manual labor, giving them the refining influence of the fine arts. And so not only will our boys study carpentry and masonry, but also architecture and art. Not only will they exert themselves digging, moving heavy stones, and using their body in ways productive and empowering, but they will also learn to use their bodies in dance, learning to hone their masculine strength and native swiftness under the guidance of music, in right relation to the feminine. The Arts course starts with music and ends with music. It begins with Gregorian chant, then to the reading and writing of verse. Followed by a course in dance and then architecture. Junior year they take op calligraphy, refining their handwriting, and then iconography. Senior year has a rigorous course of art and musical history, showing them the greatest works of our tradition.