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unusual facts about Classical education


Macrina the Younger

Gregory presents her as one who consciously rejected all Classical education, choosing instead devoted study of Scripture and other sacred writings.


The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

The film also plays with the ideas of the era where the sixties cultural revolution had swept aside the "certainties" of classical education.


see also

Cadwallader D. Colden

He was taught by a private tutor, and then provided a classical education in Jamaica, New York and in London.

Classical education movement

"The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home," by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer (W.W. Norton, 1999), is a modern reference on classical education, particularly in a homeschool setting.

Friedrich Gottfried Abel

After a classical education at Halberstadt and Wolfenbüttel, Abel entered himself at the former place as a student of theology, in 1731, under Johann Lorenz von Mosheim; a year later, he moved to Halle, where he attended the lectures of Christian Wolff and Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, and often preached himself with much applause.

Henri-Benjamin Rainville

Born in Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir, Quebec, the son of Felix Rainville, a farmer of French descent from Touques (Calvados), and Marie Daignault, Rainville obtained his elementary and classical education at the colleges of St. Hyacinthe and Ste.

Henry Nettleship

In conjunction with John Edwin Sandys, Nettleship revised and edited Oskar Seyffert's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, and he contributed to a volume entitled Essays on the Endowment of Research an article on "The Present Relations between Classical Research and Classical Education in England," in which he pointed out the great value of the professorial lecture in Germany.

Lyman R. Casey

He received a classical education and engaged in the hardware business for many years; in 1882, he moved to Carrington, Foster County, Territory of Dakota, and became a rancher.

Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert

He received his classical education in Rouen, and was also taught at the Petites écoles de Port-Royal, entered the magistracy and became judge at Montivilliers, near Le Havre.