Our Core Values
Academic Excellence
Academic excellence is the hallmark of a QTD education. Our students, curious and eager to take intellectual risks, secure an exceptional foundation in the arts, humanities, mathematics, and natural sciences through rigorous study in a dynamic structured setting. They are guided by instructors who foster independent learning, critical thinking, creative collaboration, and personal well-being.
Knowledge and Goodness
The union of intellect and integrity guides our daily efforts to prepare students for a lifetime of learning. Thirst for mastery propels our pursuit of academic excellence while application of such mastery for the greater good exemplifies non sibi (not for self).
Academic excellence is the hallmark of a QTD education. Our students, curious and eager to take intellectual risks, secure an exceptional foundation in the arts, humanities, mathematics, and natural sciences through rigorous study in a dynamic structured setting. They are guided by instructors who foster independent learning, critical thinking, creative collaboration, and personal well-being.
Knowledge and Goodness
The union of intellect and integrity guides our daily efforts to prepare students for a lifetime of learning. Thirst for mastery propels our pursuit of academic excellence while application of such mastery for the greater good exemplifies non sibi (not for self).
Strategic Priorities
Creativity & Innovation
Imaginative pedagogy has long distinguished QTD's academic excellence. To maintain a vibrant and cooperative intellectual community, we must formally implement this pursuit across the curriculum.
Empathy & Balance
QTD's founder charged every instructor in the program with convincing students “of the several great duties they owe to . . . their neighbor, and themselves.” Self-awareness remains just as important today: health, balance, and resilience are essential to a life of sustained and meaningful contribution.
Imaginative pedagogy has long distinguished QTD's academic excellence. To maintain a vibrant and cooperative intellectual community, we must formally implement this pursuit across the curriculum.
Empathy & Balance
QTD's founder charged every instructor in the program with convincing students “of the several great duties they owe to . . . their neighbor, and themselves.” Self-awareness remains just as important today: health, balance, and resilience are essential to a life of sustained and meaningful contribution.
