Learning Language
By far, the most important reason language should be taught is that Scripture itself was written and continues to be preached with it.
April 24, 2023
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By far, the most important reason language should be taught is that Scripture itself was written and continues to be preached with it.
If there’s one thing that makes classical education “classical,” it is the study of the classical languages: Greek and Latin. Classical education also involves reading the famous literature written in those languages, and studying the times when those authors lived. But a classical education is made classical with the classical languages.
The three arts of the Trivium are Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric. Grammar covers the basics of language: the alphabet, vocabulary, syntax, and so forth. Logic has to do with reason and argumentation. Rhetoric is most simply defined as the art of persuasion.