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Classical Education
What is Classical Education?
A classical education invites the scholar into what Mortimer Adler, a 20th century pioneer of classical education, called the "great conversation" that ongoing discussion to which the great thinkers, poets, artists, and musicians have been contributing throughout history. A classical school such as St. Timothy's provides a setting where students are immersed in the very best ideas and works that are the heritage of Western Civilization.
The classical approach employed at St. Timothy’s has its roots in Ancient Greece, Rome and the medieval periods, but has been renewed and adapted for the twenty-first century. In Ancient times, the education given to “freemen” focused on the development of the mind and the soul. This "liberal" education derived its meaning from the Latin word for freedom, libera. Over time, this liberal education evolved into disciplines called the Seven Liberal Arts, the first three of which formed the Trivium, the essential tools of learning: grammar, logic and rhetoric.
