Classical Education — Daniel Kontowski / Serious Science

Daniel Kontowski on trivium and quadrivium, the great books tradition and what are the arguments against classical education.

Read the full text on our website: http://serious-science.org/classical-...

'In the great books interpretation of the classical education you read great books because they are important, and they are important because people disagree about their value, but they are talking about the ideas that, according to proponents of great books, are very close to the human nature. All humans are struggling and have been struggling for centuries with certain problems and certain ideas, and we're disagreeing about certain values that those books represented and argued about, and the disagreements between those books are becoming a history of our civilization.'

Daniel Kontowski, PhD in Higher Education, School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen

Overqualification in Employment: http://serious-science.org/overqualif...
Liberal Arts Education: http://serious-science.org/liberal-ar...

Be the first to find out about our new videos and articles. Learn interesting facts about various topics and people. Discover the answers to the big questions. Be in the know.

http://serious-science.org/

Follow us:
We are on Patreon:   / seriousscience  
Facebook —   / serious.science.org  
Twitter —   / scienceserious  
YouTube —    / seriousscience  
Instagram —   / serious.science  
Tumblr —   / serious-science  
VK — https://vk.com/seriousscience