Classical Education

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:

    Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    We have not been fair with the Negro and his education. He has not had adequate or ample education to permit him to qualify for many jobs that are open to him.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)