artes liberales - education suitable for a free person
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