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Classic Liberal Arts curriculum

Seven Liberal Arts divided across 2 layers:

  • Trivium - language and thinking
    • Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric
  • Quadrivium - mathematical understanding of reality
    • Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy

Renaissance Humanist curriculum

studia humanitaris
The pillars:

  • Languages (Latin/Greek, etymology)
  • Classics (The Iliad, The Odyssey, Aristotle, Greek tragedy, etc)
  • History
  • Poetry and Literature
  • Rhetoric
  • Moral

Great Books curriculum

Associated with St John’s College Great Books curriculum
The idea: read the foundational works of civilisation chronologically