What is Classical Education? — Beautiful Teaching

The trivium = logic, grammar, rhetoric.
The quadrivium = arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.

Is the trivium about the foundation of language, and the quadrivium about the foundation of math?

Grammar is articulation (the sentence), Logic is the flow of causality (the paragraph), rhetoric is the larger structure and how it persuades (structure

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Education in virtue is a kind of formation, a retraining of our dispositions. “Learning” virtue—becoming virtuous—is more like practicing scales on the piano than learning music theory: the goal is, in a sense, for your fingers to learn the scales so they can then play “naturally,” as it were. Learning here isn’t just information acquisition; it’s

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The education of the future is going to be an education in sensory perception, and therefore an education in the humanities—especially in the arts—because artistic training is training in how to see, how to perceive, and how to communicate. Even students in business schools will benefit from this kind of training (my colleague Andreas Widmer teache... See more