Classical education

Classical education may refer to:

• Modern, educational practices and educational movements:
  • An education in the Classics, especially in Ancient Greek and Latin.
  • The study of the history and culture of the classical Greek and Roman civilizations.
  • Classical Education Movement, which seeks the renewal the traditional curriculum of the seven liberal arts, natural sciences, fine arts, and "great books" and which seeks to cultivate civic, moral, and intellectual virtue in students. The seven liberal arts are usually categorized as the verbal arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric (the "trivium") and the mathematical arts of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music (the "quadrivium).
  • Classical Christian Education, the renewal of classical education among Christian schools and homeschools around the world, but especially active in the United States.
  • Classical Islamic Education, see:
    • Madrasah
    • Ijazah
• Historical, educational practices and values:
  • Education in ancient Greece
  • Education in ancient Rome
  • The curriculum of the Middle Ages, see Medieval university
  • Classical Chinese education, see:
    • Imperial examination
    • Scholar-bureaucrats