Classical education may refer to:
- Modern educational practices and educational movements:
- An education in the Classics, especially in Ancient Greek and Latin
- Classical education movement, based on the trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and quadrivium (astronomy, arithmetic, music and geometry)
- Classical Christian education, an application of the classical education movement with an emphasis on the Christian faith.
- Classical Islamic education see:
- Madrasah
- Ijazah
- Historical educational practices and values:
- Education in ancient Greece
- Education in Ancient Rome
- The curriculum of the Middle Ages: see Medieval university
- Classical Chinese education see:
- Imperial examination
- Scholar-bureaucrats
Famous quotes containing the words classical and/or education:
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