Classical Education

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Classical Christian Homeschooling: Introduction to Classical Education

Educational History
Classical Education returns to the time-honored educational theory of the past. The classical method was the only educational theory in pratice in Western Civilization for over two millenia. “Though this system [classical education] did not receive the distinct development connoted by its name until the Middle Ages, still it extends in the history of pedagogy both backwards and forwards; for while, on the one hand, we meet with it among the classical nations, the Greeks and Romans, and even discover analogous forms as forerunners in the educational system of the ancient Orientals, its influence, on the other hand, has lasted far beyond the Middle Ages, up to the present time.” The Seven Liberal Arts by Otto Willmann, The Catholic Encyclopedia

Classical Christian Homeschooling: Introduction to Classical Education

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