First Days

Saint David's 75th Anniversary year is under way! With Excel as our school-wide theme, we challenge ourselves and our boys to be our best selves in all endeavors. As Headmaster O'Halloran notes in his opening letter: 

"A great education from a great school not only trains a boy in reason, virtue, and prudence but instills within him the notion that he must first learn to govern himself before he seeks to influence or govern others. The enlightened classical tradition that informs our program offers an educational vision rooted in truth, beauty, and goodness; in language and logic; and the value of memory and imagination. It believes that a boy is not a vessel to be filled, a problem to be managed, or a consumer to be monetized, but rather a mind, body, heart, and soul (a whole human) to be cultivated and shaped. It seeks to help a boy find balance in his life—at Saint David’s, that’s defined across the academic, aesthetic, athletic, and spiritual—and it recognizes that education at its core is a life-long journey of self-discovery; a quest to answer two fundamentally important questions: Who am I? and Why am I here? And, a great education instills within a boy a perpetual striving to excel—to be the very best he can be."

See the related Headmaster's Blog entry.