What Is Classical Education? The purpose of a classical education is to train young people to think and to be good. Classical education began in Greece and Rome, revived during the Renaissance, and was alive and well when our Founding Fathers went to school. Classical education all but died out over the course of the twentieth century as so-called progressive educators dumbed down curricula and replaced solid programs with fads such as "whole language" and "new math." In the twenty-first century, classical education is making a huge comeback, as seen in the growth of Latin programs around the country.
Classical education:
values knowledge for its own sake
upholds the standards of correctness, logic, beauty, and importance intrinsic to the liberal arts
demands moral virtue of its adherents
prepares human beings to assume their places as responsible citizens in the political order
