Academic
Loyola High School encourages each student to "strive for academic excellence and to pursue his intellectual development to the full measure of his personal talents". Loyola stresses that academic excellence involves much more than receiving satisfactory grades on a challenging curriculum. Loyola's commitment is to promote active, lifelong learning and to challenge its students to "go beyond the mastery of the basic skills, to encourage creativity, to cultivate the faculty of imagination, and to guide students to function as inquiries and problem-solvers through analysis, synthesis and evaluation." Loyola leads students to explore the "harmony and inter-relations among diverse intellectual and academic discipline, and to develop an active concern for, and awareness of, social developments in their lives in Quebec, in Canada and in the world."
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