St. Stephen’s Academy

Evergreen has founded a classical Christian School with the purpose of educating the children of its community. The aim of St. Stephen’s Academy is to provide the finest education from a Christian world view. The growing student body reflects the Beaverton community, religiously and culturally diverse. The elders of Evergreen church consider St. Stephen’s Academy to be an extension of the church’s education of our children and community. The founding Chair of the school’s directors, Michael Kane, is an Evergreen elder as is the Principal, John Breckenridge.
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“Is not the great defect of our education today… that although we often succeed in teaching our pupils “subjects,” we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think: they learn everything, except the art of learning…. We let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are a prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects… We have lost the tools of learning, and in their absence can only make a botched and piecemeal job of it.” Dorothy Sayers

“Some seek knowledge for
The sake of knowledge:
That is curiosity;
Others seek knowledge so that
They themselves may be known:
That is vanity;
But there are still others
Who seek knowledge in
Order to serve and edify others:
And that is charity.”
Bernard of Clairveaux