What do you mean by classical or trivium-based education?
Next to Scripture, the trivium is at the core of a classical education. Simply put, the trivium refers to the three ways of learning. These are the stages of a child’s education that encompass grades K-12. The stages correspond to a child’s development and also build upon one another. At each stage, tools of learning are introduced with the goal of mastering each tool. The trivium was introduced by the Greeks, adopted by the Romans, and formalized by Christendom in the Middle Ages. It was the Church during the Middle Ages that coined the term trivium to refer to these stages of education. It is in this sense that the Church can be said to have plundered the Egyptians again. The classical approach was the most prominent for over one thousand years. It is only in the last fifty to one hundred years that the current progressive model of education has become prominent. Our grandparents likely received an education that still contained some elements of the classical approach. Thus, We are g
