The Scholé Way
Scholé seeks to build a bridge between the traditional school and the homeschool, bringing together the strengths of teacher-led instruction, family life, and a community of learners.
Hi, I’m Micah Lovell.
I am a classical Christian educator in New York's Southern Tier, helping families recover a rich tradition of restful learning that forms wise minds, virtuous hearts, and joyful lives.
I have worked in classical education for the past ten years, in both private Christian schools and homeschool settings. Each has taught me something valuable. The classroom offers the wisdom and expertise of dedicated teachers and the richness of learning alongside others; the home offers freedom, flexibility, and the opportunity for education to become part of the life of a family. I have come to believe that we don't necessarily have to choose between the two.
With the support of Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd in Binghamton, Scholé Tutorials was born from that conviction: that there is room to build a bridge between the traditional school and the homeschool.
Scholé Tutorials seeks to bring together the strengths of both, providing students with thoughtful, teacher-led instruction and a community of learners, while giving families the freedom to remain active participants in their children's education. It is an attempt to make room for the things that are often difficult to preserve in a hurried educational world: time to read deeply, ask good questions, practice carefully, wonder at beautiful things, and grow in wisdom.
I believe education is ultimately about more than preparing students for what comes next. It is about learning to see the world rightly, to love what is worthy of love, and to live wisely within the good world God has given us. Scholé is my attempt to help families pursue that kind of education together.
The Four Pillars of Scholé Tutorials
Christian
We believe all truth belongs to God, and therefore no subject is ultimately separate from faith. Rooted in Scripture and the historic Christian faith, and expressed through the Anglican tradition, our education seeks to understand the world as God’s creation and every discipline in relation to Him.
Classical
Classical education is an education ordered toward wisdom and virtue. We receive the inheritance of the classical and Christian traditions through the great books, ideas, languages, arts, and disciplines that have shaped Western civilization. Rather than treating knowledge as a collection of disconnected subjects, we seek to help students see the relationships among things and understand the world as an ordered and intelligible whole.
Restful
We recover the ancient practice of scholé: a joyful, attentive approach to learning that gives students the time and freedom to wonder, contemplate, practice, and delight in discovery. We seek curiosity without hurry, mastery without anxiety, and wisdom alongside knowledge.
Relational
We believe education happens through meaningful relationships: between students and teachers, parents and children, and individuals and the communities in which they live and learn. Much as an apprentice learns from a master through observation, imitation, and guided practice, students are formed through relationships with those who know and love what they are teaching, gradually gaining the wisdom and independence to practice those disciplines themselves.
Education, at its best, is neither the work of a school alone nor of a family alone. Scholé seeks to build a bridge between home and school, bringing teachers, parents, students, and community together in the shared work of formation.
In this way, Scholé seeks to give students both roots and room: a rich inheritance to receive, and the freedom to wonder, practice, and create.
More Questions about Scholé?
As Scholé takes shape, we know there will be questions along the way. We welcome them. Please don’t hesitate to reach out. We would be glad to hear from you, learn more about your family, and share more about the vision for Scholé.