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Out of curiosity, were does one obtain a classical education?
by tomjen 18y ago
Out of curiosity, were does one obtain a classical education?
- narag 18y agoNot where but when.
- maxklein 18y agoIf you need to ask, then you don't need to know.
- tbeseda 18y agoHe means "... you needn't know."
- davi 18y agoI've just heard about this place, don't know anyone who went there: http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/ http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/
- gtani 18y agoi think that means you read philosophy, math, Latin and Greek: Homer, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Pascal, some Whitehead, Russell. Some Sartre and Camus and Nietzsche, Heidegger if you want a tortured existence. You want to go to St Johns college, i think, maybe Univ of Chicago . With a rigorous math background and some linguistics , you have the foundation of a good programming career.
- yters 18y agoA classical education is more about technique than material or school. The standard education model is that students are told what is true and what is not, and then they need to regurgitate what they've been told. The classical approach is for a student to try to understand the material themselves, then interact with a teacher and fellow classmates through a discussion format based on the Socratic method to develop their understanding. Here is an example of this technique at work with elementary school children, teaching them binary numbers: http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html
- mixmax 18y agoBoarding school in London, economics in Denmark afterwards - complete with ugly uniforms and all. Not really something you should strive for though...