CLASSICAL

EDUCATION
NOVA LISSA P. ERELLANA
Student
 Values
Care wisdom GOD
VIRTUES
CLaSsICaL
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Child-Centered Student driven
dUCaTioN
TRUTH Rigorous academics
Definition
• It is a long tradition of education that has
emphasized the seeking after of truth, goodness,
and beauty and the study of the liberal arts and
the great books.

• Classical education aims to train affections and

draw students to wonder, wisdom, and ultimately
to WORSHIP.
Definition
• Classical education understands that the world makes
sense, that it is knowable, and HAS A CREATOR
which is the unifying factor of every subject.

• A classical education is made of the seven liberal arts –

The Language Arts of grammar, logic, and
rhetoric, and the Mathematical Arts of arithmetic,
geometry, music, and astronomy (or higher math
and sciences).
 PRINCIPLES OF CLASSICAL
EDUCATION
Principles Derived From The Nature of Principles Derived From the Nature of the Child
Education

• guided by metaphysical • child is a living and eternal soul to be

commitments
• epistemological exercise
• integrates all teaching in Christ
• program is characterized by
integration, harmony, and a
consistency
• content and skills must be
mastered
• hierarchy of learning
nourished
• the purpose of childhood is training
for adulthood
• cultivation of good taste (taste for
truth, goodness, and beauty)
• moral greatness
• discipline is the foundation of every
kind of creativity and maturity
 PRINCIPLES OF CLASSICAL
EDUCATION
Principles Related to the Teacher and the Art of
Teaching
• education is the cultivation of the soul
• curriculum alignment and consistency
• students work and performance
should be assessed by instructors who
are qualified to assess
• teachers recognizes that teaching
moves in one of two directions
(induction & deduction)
• teacher needs to be committed to
growing in his mastery
Principles Related To The Community
• vocation and commission
• reverence
• social Hierarchy
• recognizes that he lives in a
historical continuum and that his
duty to give honor
• cultivates a formality in the
atmosphere of the school
• knowledge, insights, or experiences
we are given lay on each of us the
duty of stewardship
Other Common Features of
Classical Education
The use of classical books and art

A general preference for great art,

music, and literature

An integrated curriculum

An idea-focused teaching
CLASSICAL EDUCATORS?

Classical educators have a high view of humanity.

Classical educators are logocentric.

Classical educators take responsibility of the

tradition.

Classical educators teach in light of the three foregoing

elements (language, mathematics, governance).
15 Ideas that every curriculum should seek
to embody based from Classical Education

1.Truth Justice Community

Goodness Freedom Being Immortality

Beauty Personhood Mode Honor

Wisdom Virtue Change Glory

…and lastly
“What can I do with this
learning?”
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