by trueendsblog | Mar 9, 2017 | Trivium
In a classical education, training the heart in the grammar stage and training the mind in the logic stage are both preparation for training the mouth in the rhetoric stage. At about high school age, students start to crave something more complex than merely absorbing...
by trueendsblog | Mar 2, 2017 | Trivium
In my last post, I looked at C.S. Lewis’s advice for educating the grammar stage student: feed the young child’s natural inclination to absorb and imitate with the true, the good, and the beautiful. By teaching the young student to love and appreciate...
by trueendsblog | Feb 24, 2017 | Trivium
Our theme for the year–“Love. Think. Speak.”–gives us three areas to focus on as educators: the heart, the mind, and the mouth. As noted previously, these three areas line up nicely with the classical trivium’s grammar, logic, and...