Mission
At First Presbyterian Day School, our goal is to provide a strong college-preparatory education that reflects a Christian world-and-life view in the Reformed tradition. Reformed Christian Education has a rich tradition that is founded in the ideals of the Reformation and has impacted even the early American public schools. College-preparatory education has changed rapidly over the past 100 years as the challenges facing society, business, and industry have grown (especially in respect to mathematics, science, and technology) and the nature of post-secondary education has changed. We work hard to see that our program reflects these time-honored ideals and changing societal needs in a seamless and coherent way in order to fulfill our purpose to educate and equip students to change the world for God’s glory.
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Famous quotes containing the word mission:
“We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that’s the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.”
—Cyril Ponnamperuma (b. 1923)
“Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)
“I cannot be a materialist—but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery—such suffering, such dreadful suffering—and shall the short years of Christ’s mission atone for it all?”
—D.H. (David Herbert)