Why we built Chudschools, what we believe, and the long educational tradition we draw on for our academics.
Chudschools Academy was founded in Anno Domini 2026 by a small assembly of tutors who had grown disenchanted with the prevailing model of online education — a model that increasingly mistook short videos for instruction and certificates for learning.
We took as our charge the building of a serious academy: small in size, classical in spirit, generous in its grading philosophy and severe in its standards. The result is the institute you see today.
Scientia ipsa potentia est.
Knowledge itself is power.
It is a phrase typically attributed to Francis Bacon, and it has guided this Academy from its first day. It is not a boast about the marketable value of an education — it is an older claim, that to understand the world is to be capable in it.
We follow, with adjustments, the older curriculum of the medieval universities — the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, joined to the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. To these we have added a thorough modern history programme, the natural sciences as they are now practiced, and an honest treatment of mathematics from arithmetic through analysis.
We do not pretend that the medieval university got everything right. It got many things wrong, including a great deal about who was permitted an education. But the shape of that older programme — its insistence that an educated person should know mathematics, history, the sciences, and the use of language — remains the right shape.
Chudschools does not inflate grades. An A at our academy is a genuine acknowledgement of mastery; a C is no shame, only an invitation to revise. We grade every essay by hand, every problem set against a rubric, and every examination against the standard we set on the first day of term.
Our median GPA is approximately 3.4, and we are proud of that figure. It tells our students, in advance, that the marks they earn here will mean something.
Our academic year is organized into three terms in the old style — Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity — with brief recesses between. Most courses span a single term; a small number are year-long and reserved for the most advanced students.
That we read every essay submitted to us, answer every question, and remember always that an education is a long conversation between teachers and students — not a series of transactions for credit.
If a serious education in mathematics, history, the sciences, and the liberal arts is what you are looking for, we would be glad to count you among our students.
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