A Classical Approach to Education

Classical education is a return to the proven educational methods and theories of the past. In fact, until about one hundred years ago the classical method was THE method for everyone in Western civilization. Although the classical approach was not distinctly developed until the Middle Ages, its practice dates back to the Greek and Roman eras.

Any list of the great minds of the past will reveal people who were products of classical education –Archimedes, St. Paul, Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Sir Isaac Newton, John Calvin, Martin Luther, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Edwards, even George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.