classical education
Greek-and-Latin curriculum
Classical education is an approach to learning modeled on the educational traditions of ancient Greece and Rome, emphasizing grammar, logic, rhetoric, and engagement with great works of Western literature and philosophy.
The curriculum typically progresses through developmental stages: memorization in early years, analytical reasoning in middle years, and persuasive expression in later years.
They homeschool using a classical education model.
The approach has seen revival among religious and secular traditionalists who view modern education as insufficiently rigorous.
- liberal artsNon-vocational higher education
- Great BooksEssential literary works
- classical trainingFoundational study in traditional methods
- LatinAncient Roman language
- dead languagesLanguages without native speakers
rhetoric · Socratic method · Socratic questioning · Renaissance humanism · Cicero · founding fathers · moral philosophy · Socratic dialogue · character formation · Western canon · civic virtue · Ancient Greek · logic · classical antiquity · democratic ideals · pedagogy · classical literature · lyceum
- teaching methodspresentation, lecturing, discussion, modeling, hands-on learning
- Education MethodsMontessori, Waldorf, homeschooling, unschooling, constructivism
- RenaissanceLeonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Mona Lisa
- classical educationLatin, grammar, logic, trivium, rhetoric
- education historypublic schooling, school reform, educational reforms, one-room school, medieval universities
- elite educationboarding schools, prep schools, private schools, international schools, elite schools
classical educationprogressive education
Child-centered pedagogical approach
classical educationvocational training
Job-skill education
trade school · technical education · job training · apprenticeship · professional certification
classical educationprogressive education
Child-centered pedagogical approach
unschooling · child-centered education · self-directed learning · Montessori education · democratic education