Inspiring, Christ-centered program led by exceptional mentors
The goal is help your child learn, grow, and thrive.
Core
Monday through Thursday
8:00 AM - 11:30 am
Math
Reading
Writing
Elective
Socratic Discussion
Great Books: Civilizations, Social studies, history, philosophy
11:30 AM -12:30 PM
Quest
Thursday
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Skill-building experiences
Science & art
Experience
The Five-Year Odyssey: Our Curriculum & Sequence
At Hilltop Education, we do not teach subjects in isolation. We follow a chronologically synchronized, five-year classical rotation. Every year, our cohort focuses on a single geographic anchor rooting western civilization. We deep dive each term with a specific focus for 6 weeks, prepare exhibition materials, go on an adventure, and take a week off. Students read the foundational Great Books of that era, engage in sharp Socratic seminars, step out into our local community for hands-on "Quests," and finish in an imersive adventure experience.
🌟 Academic Rigor with a Lot of Grace
We divide our reading into two distinct developmental tracks. However, we believe in meeting students where they are. If an older teen is new to the Great Books, experiencing academic burnout, or balancing a heavy outside workload, they are always welcome to read from the Logic Track. Our primary goal is deep comprehension, confident expression, and a lifelong love of wisdom, not stressful box-checking.
Thematic 5 Year Roots of Classical Education Rotation
Year 1. Greece
Foundations of Wisdom
- Focus: The birth of philosophy, democratic ideals, cosmic order, and epic mythology.
- Key Authors: Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Herodotus.
- Slogan: "Seek the Truth, Question the World."
- Imagine: Stand in the ruins of the Athenian Agora to hold a Socratic discussion on justice.
- Experience: let's pick together which quests we want: medicinal plant foraging, pottery making, greek architecture design, becoming a storyteller of ancient greek stories, goat cheese making, greek festival, watching the stars and learning the constellation patterns and stories, wine making with your feet!
Year 2. Italy
Empire, Faith, and Rebirth
- Focus: Roman law, civic virtue, the rise of Christendom, and the artistic explosion of the Renaissance.
- Key Authors: Virgil, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Augustine, Dante.
- Slogan: "Build the City, Awaken the Mind."
- Imagine: Read Virgil in the Roman Forum and trace the transition from pagan empire to Christian Europe.
- Experience: anatomy studies, painting in several mediums, gardening, masonry, navigating a vessel as a team
Year 3. France
Reason, Faith, and Revolution
- Focus: High Medieval scholasticism, the Enlightenment, scientific inquiry, and the violent birth of secular modernism.
- Key Authors: Aquinas, Descartes, Pascal, Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo.
- Slogan: "Dare to Reason, Fight for Freedom."
- Imagine: Discuss Cartesian doubt in a Parisian café and tour the Gothic architecture of Chartres Cathedral.
- Experience: make your own stained glass window, medieval feast with etiquette and music, learning to chant to a medieval choir tune
Year 4. England
Liberty, Law, and Literature
- Focus: The development of common law, constitutional monarchy, industrialization, and the heights of English poetry and drama.
- Key Authors: Magna Carta, Shakespeare, Milton, Locke, Austen, Dickens.
- Slogan: "Defend the Law, Unleash the Imagination."
- Imagine: See a Shakespeare play at the Globe Theatre in London and discuss John Locke's political theories at Oxford.
- Experience: putting on a Shakespearean play (in a day, or over 5 weeks), immersing in Utah's Shakespearean Plays, visiting industrial revolution style factories
Year 5: United States
The American Experiment
- Focus: Constitutional republic design, religious freedom, individualism, the fight for civil rights, and modern global tensions.
- Key Authors: The Federalist Papers, Tocqueville, Franklin, Douglass, Twain, Lincoln.
- Slogan: "Govern Thyself, Shape the Future."
- Imagine: Walking the Freedom Trail in Boston or the National Mall in Washington D.C. to deliberate on the implementation of classical ideals in a modern democracy.
- Experience: being in a handcart company, The Judicial Quest: Formally litigating a historic Supreme Court case in a mock-trial setting.
Educational Services & Grade-Level Curriculum Disclosure
A World Class classical education
Core Educational Services Provided:
Hilltop Education provides a comprehensive, academically rigorous Classical Great Books program specifically optimized for Middle School (Grades 6–8 / Logic Stage) and High School (Grades 9–12 / Rhetoric Stage) students.
- Individualized Mathematics & Progress Tracking: Personalized, highly adaptive math skill mastery math, tracking students continuously from foundational arithmetic up through advanced high school calculus.
- Socratic Discussion Seminars: Live, faculty-guided intellectual dialogue analyzing the primary source texts of Western Civilization, logic, and political philosophy.
- Writing & Literary Rhetoric: in addition to group class, Individualized and small group tutor check-ins focusing on essay structure, formal logic mapping, thesis defense, and expressive language skills.
- Experiential Learning Quests: Structured, hand-on educational modules linking academic history to practical sciences, including botanical taxonomy and foraging, agricultural chemistry, homesteading, and arts.
"Knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven" - Shakespeare
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” — Socrates (commonly attributed)
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” — Aristotle
“Wisdom begins in wonder.” — Socrates
“The soul is healed by being with children.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The end of education is virtue.” — John Ruskin