Why a Classical Education is Superior
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- Опубліковано 21 бер 2019
- I chat with Steven Rummelsburg about the advantages of a Catholic classical education.
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I get so tired of people claiming that education is all about getting a good job.
On the subject of not knowing your first language until knowing a second, I was just explaining this to a friend of mine. Learning a second language was so difficult because I did not understand my first very well. “What in the heck are grammar patterns!?” “Why do I need to know what order the subject and the verb go in?” It was while I was learning my second language that I realized my first language wasn’t taught well.
Consider the Charlotte Mason variety of classical education, especially if you're homeschooling. CM ensures the arts and nature appreciation don't get lost among the academics. It's about forming relationships with what we're learning about. Truth, beauty, goodness.
Thanks for this! Striving to classically home educate my daughter!
I read a biography on Flannery O'Connor and she said she wished that she had had a classical education. When she was in high school the local college was doing some course changes and she ended up in a chemistry class where they did no experiments. Also, she never heard of Homer until she had finished her bachelors and was working on her MFA. A classical education affords you the ability to have a great big basket of knowledge that comes in handy when you go through life. It is also good to be able to use your brain and be able to reason and not just feel.
There is a renaissance movement going on in Brazil towards Classical Education headed by Olavo de Carvalho, Rafael Falcón, Rodrigo Gurgel etc.
When the economy rewards “truth” and fluency in Latin over practical skills and applicable knowledge, then I’ll believe in this approach.
Education can increase pride in people, as we are seeing in western societies nowadays, when highly educated elites rule (mostly on a technical/scientific background) and the majority of people do not feel any more the need for God and are completely deaf to his calls..
Latin has enriched my reading tenfold! And it's been fun, like playing with word puzzles. I started as an adult with children's resources and have gotten through the second year of Henle. ❤ We tried to provide our children a classical Christian education, and even though it was a patchy, amateur, piecemeal approach, there has been so much spiritual and intellectual fruit. I'm thrilled for them, and I will always be in the process of redeeming my own poor modern education.
“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for they were no more worlds to conquer”…
"is the public school just knowledge for the sake of knowledge?"
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We moved over the first Rona lockdown to a new state and enrolled our kids in the local Catholic school because their website says they provide “A Classical Catholic Education” . I have come to realize none of these Catholic Schools know what that even means. Currently letting my kids finish the year, and working so hard to convince my husband to let me enroll them in MODG rather than try another Catholic school.
Wilhelm von Humboldt, who in 1807 founded the structure of modern German education (the research universities which the United States copied after 1875, for one thing), was a genuine classical scholar who translated Sophocles and wrote a history of the Hellenistic Greek city-states.
When I was a child I put little regard on grades. I believe that helped the notion of learning for the sake of learning. If I got a 10 out of 10 or a 6 was irrelevant compared to the much greater sense of having fun and leaning mew things. The evaluation was a mere fun assignments.
Please debate Jay Dyer. He's an Eastern Orthodox apologist making strong arguments against the Catholic faith
Do you homeschool your children?
Classically education vs Sudbury education?
Diary of a wimpy kid is definitely going to be a classic👌
For anyone who wants to get a classical education independently I recommend "The Well Educated Mind" by Susan Wise Bauer. Also we need to remember that many of the "geniuses" of the past were independently wealthy and had women and slaves to take care of them, so they had a lot more free time.