While modern education often, and in many places, is repudiating the value of the great academic disciplines of Western Civilization, we believe that our cultural heritage is a treasure not only to cherish, but to pass on to the current generation of young people. In a world where many fundamental ideas about truth, about right behavior, about the nature of what constitutes beauty are being challenged, we believe there are many eternal, unchanging views in the arts, sciences, and religion that we should develop in the hearts and souls of our children.