The Tools of Education: The Liberal Arts

https://youtu.be/xa9Zw5l4ugU Gram loquitur, Dia verba docet, Rhet verba colorat,Mus canit, Ar numerat, Geo ponderat, Ast colit astra. Few have encountered that Latin couplet today, but Lewis introduces it by saying: Everyone knows that the Arts are Grammar, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy. And almost everyone has met the mnemonic couplet" (The Discarded Image, …

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A Catechism for Classical Christian Education

Last year, I had the privilege of being a tutor for my daughter’s Classical Conversations class. Since we are encouraged to write out our whiteboards with God at the center of each subject, I began every class by asking the students where we must always begin our studies. The answer, of course, being God. I …

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