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:

    “Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “Major [William] McKinley visited me. He is on a stumping tour.... I criticized the bloody-shirt course of the canvass. It seems to me to be bad “politics,” and of no use.... It is a stale issue. An increasing number of people are interested in good relations with the South.... Two ways are open to succeed in the South: 1. A division of the white voters. 2. Education of the ignorant. Bloody-shirt utterances prevent division.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)