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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. -Credit to Hillsdale College

The grammar stage teaches students to speak, read, and write well. The priority of the grammar stage is to learn the classical languages, which are Greek and Latin, and to read and write about classical literature with skill and eloquence.

The heart and soul of grammar, as the ancients understood it, is, in fact, the learning of Greek and Latin. Understanding grammar as the learning of classical languages might, indeed, sound strange to the modern mindset, but the very language that we take for granted, on a day to day basis, is rooted in these classical languages. The English word for school, for example, comes from the Greek word, schole´, which means restful learning.

Classical educators introduce their pupils to Latin at an earlier age because children, particularly in the younger years, generally learn best through imitation (they can mimic what they see from adults). A child’s formation at the grammar stages eventually gives birth to the reasoning of classical languages as they apply, not only to sentence structure, etymology, and syntax, but also to the subjects as well, to history, to geography, to philosophy, and theology.