The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
— Plato, The Republic

Classical Education 101

  • Education as formation, not merely information

  • Culture teaches as much as curriculum 

  • Truth, goodness, and beauty as the highest pursuits

  • Balance of wonder and rigor 

  • Original documents based

  • Latin is a core requirements 

  • Emphasis on the seven liberal arts 

  • Integrated interdisciplinary learning

  • Development of critical thinking 

  • Trains students to learn how to learn

  • Mastery as working to one’s fullest potential

  • Lifelong love of learning as the ultimate goal