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Recent reports have suggested that reintroducing the so-called “dead” languages of Latin and Greek may actually boost scores in reading, math, and science. So why does learning Latin seem to give students an advantage in life? Latin educators and authors Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn suggest seven possible reasons in their book Teaching the Trivium: 1. Latin is basic to English 2. Latin is a springboard for mastering other inflected languages, such as Greek or German 3. The study of Latin sharpens the mental process 4. Everything in a culture is embedded in its language 5. Technical language is Latin 6. Latin…

by Lee Cordon on January 12, 2016 in Education, Homeschooling, School-Aged With the flip top wooden desks and lack of computers or iPads, you could easily mistake my daughter’s classical school for something out of the 1950s. But it’s not a longing for the good old days that motivated my husband and me to make the counter-cultural decision to send our daughters to a classical school. After five years of having children in a classical school, these are the reasons I am so happy my husband and I made the decision we did: They learn how great minds learned for centuries. Classical…

Classical Christian education cooperates best as a model with the growing child's mind.  Ancient, yet contemporarily effective, classical Christian education applies the trivium to organize and graduate a students learning from the simple to the complex.  The trivium is known as the grammar, logic and rhetoric stages. In the grammar stage, a classical, Christian school teaches the structure, vocabulary, rules and conventions of each branch of learning.  Next the student is ready to connect this knowledge and to reason clearly about it.  This is learned through the study and application of logic across each arena of learning.  Finally, at the rhetoric level, the…