Re: Spin off: How Charlotte Mason Differs Frim Classical Education
Subbing to come back when I have time.
Random quick thoughts: not all classical is the trivium-as-stages kind (although that is probably the most common version right now). That's a more contemporary interpretation of classical; some older versions tend to treat the trivium as *subjects*.
Also, wrt the fact-food versus idea-food distinction, the wisdom-and-virtue kind of classical that I'm aiming for would consider that a both/and, not an either/or. You can't separate facts from ideas, and you shouldn't try; neither is more important than the other. Ideas inhere in concrete facts; facts embody immaterial ideas. Facts separated from ideas are meaningless factoids with no sense of "why care", of what the facts *mean*; and ideas separated from facts become mere truthiness instead of *truth*.
Wisdom-and-virtue classical considers ideas just as important and vital as that article does; but it also values learning specific bodies of knowledge more than that article does.
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