St.Benedict’s College

Discipline is a way of focusing energy and attention on what matters. Benedictine life is built around a fundamental discipline of prayer, work and relationships that is set forth in the Rule and that seeks to free a monastic to take delight in God’s presence within the self, the community and the world. No learning takes place without discipline. Students must sacrifice short-time benefits for long-term goals. In pursuing academic excellence the faculty and staff seek to teach and model the skills for cultivating discipline. Within a Benedictine institution of higher education it is our intent to shape the classroom, laboratory, and studio – as well programs in athletics, service and leadership – to call forth and support personal discipline on the part of students. We rejoice at growth in knowledge and self-understanding that is the fruit of hard work, initiative and honest assessment.