The Classical Difference
How does the classical method help students to think, organize, and draw conclusions about their world?
Central to the classical approach is the integration of subjects, organized around a historical timeline. Literature, composition, science, art, and mathematics are connected to the time periods in which they developed.
Students engage with rigorous content and themes from the Western tradition that prepare them far beyond basic standards, resulting in a sense of greater understanding and true accomplishment. They learn to discern what is true, good, and beautiful as they model after their instructors; they develop a new degree of emotional, spiritual, physical, and academic independence.
This type of education originated in the Greco-Roman classical period, but was not categorized until the Middle Ages. Thence, the terms Trivium (three language arts) and Quadrivium (four mathematical arts) came to represent the whole of a liberal arts education.
We put an emphasis on all seven of these arts in an age-appropriate manner. For example, the three arts of the Trivium—Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric—provide a clear progression of study consistent with human cognitive and developmental growth.
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