Info on Classical Education
We are following the classical education model for our homeschool and are using The Well Trained Mind as our curriculum. I recently discovered an interview on Debra Bell’s website with Susan Wise Bauer, author of the aforementioned book. If you want to know what classical education is about, this interview summarizes the ideas very concisely.
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Leave a commentQuestion: is there anything that makes a classical education particularly more Christian per se, or is it simply one of a number of options for education consistent with Christian values and/or priorities?
I’ll let Lois leave a more lengthy answer… but I’ll start it off by saying I don’t think that a classical education is necessarily “more Christian” than other approaches. It’s certainly not commended in the Bible more so than other approaches. So the answer to the first half of your question is no, IMO.
That being said, I think that it offers a more rigorous and more literary education than most other approaches. And in our day and age when both rigor and well-versedness with history and literature are wanting in many educational environs, those two elements appeal to us as particularly helpful for helping prepare our children to be effective ambassadors for the gospel in this “post-Christian” culture. Notwithstanding a strong grasp and love of the gospel itself, of course.
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