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)
“Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls’ Nourishment.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)