PRINCIPLES OF A CLASSICAL CURRICULUM

You have been tasked with a great responsibility - that of educating yourself or of educating others.

But what is Education?

What is the purpose, the point, the telos of Education?

What even is a curriculum?

And what is it that makes a curriculum “classical”?

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.." - Gandalf to Frodo, LOTR Book I, chapter 2 (JRR Tolkien)

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.." - Gandalf to Frodo, LOTR Book I, chapter 2 (JRR Tolkien)

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  • Also known as “Gyges’ Ring” from the work “The Republic”

  • From the work “The Republic”

  • Set against the character of Gyges.

    From the work “The Republic”

  • “The Three Ways” and “The Four”

  • The Three Ways

  • The four ways

The Classical Understanding of the SCIENTIFIC METHOD

The development of EDUCATION

  • A discussion of the debate among Scholastics (teachers at the Universities) concerning the relationship between Universals vs. Particulars

  • Concerning the nature of LOGOS and the vision of mathematics

    PART 1

  • Concerning the collapse of reason and the triumph of nominalism.

    PART 2

The history of grades and grading

The Nature and Purpose of Education

9 PRINCIPLES

The principle of

THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING

The principle of the LOGOS

“the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

The principle of PIETAS

and Ordo Amoris

The principle of THAUMA

“all philosophy begins in wonder”

The principle of the GNOMON

“Unless a seed fall into the ground and die”

The principle of METANOIA

“the purpose of all art is anagogy”

The principle of RATIO

“a:b::c:d”

The principle of ANALOG

“as above so below”

The principle of LOVE

“God so loved the world”