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:
“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“In that reconciling of God and Mammon which Mrs. Grantly had carried on so successfully in the education of her daughter, the organ had not been required, and had become withered, if not defunct, through want of use.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)