At Stone Table our courses are designed to teach your children the principles upon which each discipline is built on the basis of the Christian faith. Because these principles rest upon the Christian faith, we necessarily begin, sustain, and end each course with God as our Primary Reference.

• At Stone Table our philosophy of education is that the education be usable— that it have an external expression. For every theoretic truth, students should know its relevance to their everyday lives.
  
  
• School subjects (disciplines) are bodies of truth to which students must learn to submit rather than merely being bodies of knowledge to acquire. Therefore, the first priority of education is to format the student’s mind to think within Biblical patterns at the forefront of his educational experience. This is primarily characterized by submission, not by academic ability.
  
  
• Because mankind is made in the image of God, the intellect is oriented to the will of the child and not the will of the child to the intellect. In other words, education involves more than the mind. That is why character is primary to education and not the child’s ability to memorize or to recall facts.
  
  
• Academic work is hard work. Academic disciplines can only be mastered gradually. Success is not always achieved lesson by lesson or in one academic year. Mastery is not only gradual but uneven so that it is possible for a student to do well one week and not the next. We must make allowances for such inconsistencies, for so is the nature of the world. To demand absolute academic perfection is an unreasonable aspiration. To expect consistent character and academic growth is reasonable.