Classical Education

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:

    Classical art, in a word, stands for form; romantic art for content. The romantic artist expects people to ask, What has he got to say? The classical artist expects them to ask, How does he say it?
    —R.G. (Robin George)

    A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.
    Laurent A. Daloz (20th century)