Education

Classical Education

Sharing Great Ideas with New Generations

The contemporary classical education movement, adhering to time-tested curricula and pedagogy, finds diverse expression in public, private, and home schools, and involves a variety of supporting institutions, such as school networks, institutes, societies, associations, and publishers. The Education Department at Hillsdale College collaborates with a wide variety of internal and external partners in this movement and forms future teachers and administrators for classical schools through departmental courses that impart a rich vision of the whole of classical education and knowledge of certain key facets of it, as well as through a liberal arts teacher apprenticeship.    

What is Classical Education?

Classical Education is the pursuit of wisdom through a cultivation of intellectual virtue and an encouragement of moral virtue by means of a rich and ordered course of study, grounded in the liberal arts; ascending through humane letters, mathematics, natural science, philosophy, and theology; and yielding informed self-rule and a well-ordered understanding of human nature, the cosmos, and God.

Educational Philosophy

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Central to any philosophy of education is one’s understanding of the human person. Truth is the proper object of the human mind.

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Liberal Arts

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We believe that the liberal arts in particular and liberal education in general are the surest, most time-tested way to direct students toward a life that is truly free.

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