It should guide them in making a good beginning on the road to wisdom and in forming the intellectual virtues characteristic of well-educated men and women. This it will do chiefly through its curriculum of studies. The major subjects comprehended by a curriculum of classical liberal education are worthy of the attention given them because of their intrinsic merits and because each contributes to the student's growing knowledge, judgement and wisdom. But these subjects are not all of equal importance.
Wisdom includes discerning their relationships and relevance to one another.
A Catholic college must therefore organize its curriculum to make evident the essential unity and intrinsic order of the arts and sciences. In so doing, it will guide students to see for themselves that all the branches of learning converge on theological wisdom. The academic program of Thomas Aquinas College presents to students, in an order that respects the natural development of their minds, the fields of knowledge that comprehend a complete undergraduate education. Even a cursory reading of these books, however, reveals frequent and radical disagreement among their authors concerning fundamental matters. The many contradictory claims made by the authors studied in the curriculum are sifted for their merits under both the natural light of reason and the supernatural light of Faith.