SEMPER AD MELIORA

Liberty’s students are imbued with an ethos of ongoing improvement. We always strive to become better. Becoming the best in public education is never beyond our scope of ambition. As such, being oriented “Always Toward Better Things” animates the perfect motto for our 25th school year.

 

All children should aspire to be better students. Over time, this attitude is suffused by teachers who aim to be the best at their craft, by a support staff that drives for precision, and by administrators who believe perfection in certain things can and should be pursued.    

 

Any time Liberty Common School is recognized as best-in-class, we definitely brag about it, for, as a charter-public school, Liberty exists in a marketplace of competitive academic professionals intent upon outdoing one another in serving families. We should absolutely be proud of our students’ successes and the collective triumphs of the whole school.  

 

I, for example, am particularly proud that it is LCHS students who came up with this year’s decorous motto “SEMPER AD MELIORA.” We are, nonetheless, mindful of the timeless portent that every one who exalts himself will be humbled.

 

Accordingly, the school does not seek things too sublime. It does not search into things beyond our strength.

 

These divine matters, by nature, are exactly suited for the family, the Church, the Synagogue, and other central institutions properly ordained to guide children in faith and formation. In aspiring always toward better things, we must be careful to conduct our affairs with humility.