Classical Education is the most time tested method for teaching students how to think and how to learn with an emphasis on cultivating wisdom and virtue.

Through the centuries, the great minds, along with students of many generations, have sat under this approach that seeks to equip students with the “tools” of learning. A child’s age and stage of development determines instruction methods focusing on the strengths of the child’s growth period. Students are taught to write, think and speak in a Liberal Arts focused curriculum. In the Classical Method, the Seven Liberal Arts, which are modes of learning, are taught in two phases through the the Trivium and the Quadrivium. The Trivium, also called the “Arts of Words,” focuses on various ways of attending to words and progresses through the grammar, logic and rhetoric stages. The quadrivium, also called “The Arts of Numbers or Quantity” is pursued after students have cycled out of the Trivium.

The Trivium (Latin for “three roads”) divides learning into three phases that correspond with a child’s natural development:

• GRAMMAR STAGE (K-5th grade age range): Students focus on the fundamental elements of each subject focusing on memorization and content knowledge.

• LOGIC STAGE (6th-9th grade age range): Students in this age range start to critically analyze and interpret the facts that were memorized during the grammar phase.

• RHETORIC STAGE (10th- 12th grade age range): Students in this age range are taught to communicate their thoughts and beliefs clearly, eloquently, and persuasively.

The Quadrivium (Latin for “four ways” which are astronomy, geometry, music, and arithmetic) are the modes to develop the abilities to think logically and aesthetically in the upper years of the Rhetoric Stage.