their own. Gateway is excited to focus on seven specific tools of learning to enable

students to gain these skills.

Our first four tools are the foundation of an excellent education including reading,

writing, mathematics, and learning styles analysis. These tools form the basis for

mastering life skills of decoding, encoding, and communicating information to others,

creatively and/or scientifically. Students must also understand their personal learning

styles in order to know how they best learn and to get excited about their responsibility

over their education.

The final three tools of learning are necessary to a Classical Education and the key to our

comprehensive curriculum. These include understanding the grammar of academic

subjects, logic, and rhetoric. These allow students to have a foundation of facts for future

knowledge, the ability to integrate facts into a conceptual whole, and an opportunity to

use creativity to discover and express relationships between facts.