Classical Teaching Flashcards
What are the permanent things?
Truth, beauty, goodness
What is on our crest?
Veritas vos liberabit
The truth will set you free
What is our mission/our statement of purpose?
Our mission is to provide students with a Christ-centered and classical education which emphasizes academic excellence in the liberal arts.
When we say Christ centered what do we mean?
We teach all subjects as part of an integrated whole with the Scriptures at the center.
We seek to provide a clear model of biblical Christian life through our staff and Board of Directors.
We encourage every child to begin and develop his relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ.
When we say classical what do we mean?
We emphasize grammar, logic and rhetoric in all subjects.
We encourage every student to develop a love for learning and to live up to his or her academic potential.
We provide an orderly atmosphere to facilitate the accomplishment of these goals.
What has modern education failed to do?
Teach them how to think; the art of learning
What are the three parts of the trivium?
Grammar, dialectic (logic), rhetoric
What is the purpose of the trivium?
Teach kids the proper use of the tools of learning before applying them to various subjects
Describe grammar
Language, structure of language, how it’s put together and how it works
Describe dialectic (logic)
How to use language, how to define terms and make accurate statements, how to construct an argument and detect fallacies
Describe rhetoric
How to express himself in language, how to say it elegantly and persuasively
What are the three states of development?
Poll-parrot, pert, poetic
What is the poll-parrot stage?
Learning by heart is easy and fun
What is the pert stage?
Contradicting, answering back, catching faults
What is the poetic stage?
Yearns to express self, restless, tries for independence, beginning of creativeness
What is the best grounding for education?
Latin grammar
In the first stage, grammar, the master faculties are _ and _, and to exercise that was _.
Observation
Memory
Latin grammar
In the second stage, dialectic or _, the master faculties are _ and _, and to exercise that was _.
Logic
Discursive reason
Formal logic
Logic is the
Art of arguing correctly
What is the quadrivium?
arithmetic, astronomy, music, and geometry
What is the sole true end of education?
To teach people how to learn for themselves
What are the 6 parts of a classical education?
Truth Grammar Logic Rhetoric Great books Habits
What are some outcomes of classical education?
Adaptable
Bold
Virtue
Confident in Christ
What qualities should we strive to endow our students?
Justice
Prudence
Fortitude
Temperance
In order to have a good education, we must instill in our students a _ or _
Purpose
Telos
God expects us to discipline our children so that they may be able to _
Share in God’s nature (Hebrews 12:10)
What is the ultimate goal of discipline?
To teach the kids to be self-disciplined
How can we be saved?
We can do nothing to earn God’s love or forgiveness, but it is only available to be received by faith as a gracious gift from God, because of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, revealed in the Bible
Christ died for sinners in accordance with the Scriptures, and He rose again on the third day. A person who responds to this message with repentance and belief will be saved.
What is the Law intended for?
Show people the need for the gospel
What is rhetoric?
The clear expression of grammar and logic of each subject
Parents should see __ as a supplement to their own teaching.
The work of the Christian school
One of the goals is to get students to think _
In the hallways between classes
God is the light in which _
We see and understand everything else
When God is acknowledged,
All knowledge coheres
Why are Christian schools not brainwashing or indoctrination?
A fixed reference point from which to accurately view both sides of an argument is the only honest way to think at all.
The Bible is not meant to be read as a math or science book, but it does _
Provide a framework for understanding these secular subjects, without which they’d dissolve into absurdity.
A Christian teacher’s job is not to have the students spend all their time gazing at the sun (God). Rather _
We want them to examine everything else in the light the sun provides.
In the Christian worldview, discipline is _
A way to respect a person’s Biblical dignity
According to John Milton, the end of learning is
To repair the ruins of our first parents by
- regaining to know God
- to love Him
- to imitate and be like Him
When it comes to the grace of God, Christian education
Prepares the way for it
Follows it up
Does not replace it
What is the advantage of Christian education?
Preparation for those who have not received the grace of God
Godly instruction for those who have
True classical education is a presentation of _ adorned by the _ of the instructor.
Knowledge
Love
An essential part of the classical mind is awareness of and gratitude for _
The heritage of Western civilization
What is the heart and soul of a classical education?
Conversation with the past
What are 5 values of learning Latin?
Reveals a lot about the English language and how to use it
Helps to appreciate literature
Helps to understand our civilization
Trains us in essentials of scientific method
Great foundation to study other languages
When teaching the trivium at the proper stages, what two things are accomplished?
Children enjoy what they do
What they do equips them with tools of learning
What does it mean to have a relationship with God?
To be in communion.
We are receiving communications from God about himself through his word, made vital to us through the Holy Spirit. We delight in his communication and return to him in prayer and acts of obedience.
