Classical education is a curriculum model, revived in the mid-twentieth century by writer Dorothy Sayers's 1947 essay The Lost Tools of Learning and expanded into the classical-school and classical-homeschooling movements from the 1980s onward, that stages instruction through the medieval trivium: a grammar stage of memorization and foundational facts in the early years, a logic stage of structured argument and reasoning in early adolescence, and a rhetoric stage of persuasive writing and speech in the later teens, built around primary texts read in a roughly chronological sequence.
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Central QuestionHow can schooling move past teaching disconnected information and actually teach students how to think 1 Most Effective ForTraining students, especially in early adolescence during the logic stage, to find analytical connections between facts and ideas rather than only grasp isolated information 1 Classification
Education LevelLower Secondary Education (ISCED 2) 1 Connections
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Eton College's historical curriculum was centered on classical education, dominated by Latin, Ancient History and Classical Greek.
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Harrow School's curriculum from its 1572 founding was based on the languages and culture of ancient Rome and Greece, in the classical tradition common to English schools of the era.
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She lamented that the 'great defect of our education' was that schools taught information, but did not teach students how to think.
Logic subsection, under Primary education, the trivium
The goal of the logic stage is to train the student's mind not only to grasp information, but to find the analytical connections between seemingly different facts/ideas.
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In the modern renaissance of classical education, this logic stage (or dialectic stage) refers to the junior high or middle school aged student, who developmentally is beginning to question ideas and authority, and truly enjoys a debate or an argument.
In Group: Traditional and Dialogue-Based Teaching Systems, Lead
The classical education movement or renewal advocates for a return to a traditional European education based on the liberal arts (including the natural sciences), the Western canons of classical literature, the fine arts, and the history of Western civilization.
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Later the emphasis was on classical studies, dominated by Latin and Ancient History, and, for boys with sufficient ability, Classical Greek.
Harrow School (Wikipedia)
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As in all schools of the time, education was based on the languages and culture of the ancient civilisations of Rome and Greece.
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