Poetic Knowledge (Or, Magic of Mother Academia) | The Commonplace | Classical CM Home Education

Classical Christian education employs the language arts (Trivium: grammar, logic, rhetoric) and the mathematical arts (Quadrivium: astronomy, arithmetic, music, geometry) in the pursuit of educating whole persons – mind, body, and soul. These arts are not simply subjects, but are as they are called – arts. That is, they are principles and methods o... See more

“The schoolhouse I envision would be very different [from the conventional schools] in this regard. Because I would stress the connections and the continuity among concepts, there would be no brick walls between one “subject” and the next. Since learning would be self-paced and self-motivated, there would be no ticking clock telling students when t... See more