For generations up to the Industrial Revolution, children were educated according to the Trivium of the Classical method. This method was credited for creating such leaders as George Washington and philosophers such as Aristotle. It is hoped that each Odinist family can use this method to enhance their own educational methods!
What is the Classical Method?
In a nutshell, the Classical Method is the way children learn through their various stages of development. Instead of forcing a child to look at History logically in second grade, the Trivium teaches that a child in the second grade is when you teach the “grammar” of history or to say it another way, the trivium during second grade is concerned with teaching facts. It is a very simple method that yields terrific results.
What is the Trivium?
The trivium consists of the Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric stages of development. The Poll Parrot Stage has been included in recent years. People from birth to adulthood have a certain pattern of learning, which is reflected in this Trivium.
What is the Classical Method?
In a nutshell, the Classical Method is the way children learn through their various stages of development. Instead of forcing a child to look at History logically in second grade, the Trivium teaches that a child in the second grade is when you teach the “grammar” of history or to say it another way, the trivium during second grade is concerned with teaching facts. It is a very simple method that yields terrific results.
What is the Trivium?
The trivium consists of the Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric stages of development. The Poll Parrot Stage has been included in recent years. People from birth to adulthood have a certain pattern of learning, which is reflected in this Trivium.
Poll-Parrot
Has one ever noticed that toddlers love to hear the same story (especially rhyming ones) repeatedly? This is in essence what the “Poll Parrot” stage of learning is about. Preschoolers love to imitate and learn well through imitation, repetition, and memorization. This stage a parent should encourage memorization through imitation and repetition. Consider, for instance, a four-year-old and Dr. Seuss. The child has the parent read the stories over and over again, he/she then imitate the parent reading while reciting the story from memory. Parents feel that this is tedious, but the preschooler absolutely loves it and is, in fact, learning! This is also where the timeless phrase: “Garbage in, Garbage out” comes into play. The beauty of Classical Education is that its method takes into consideration this unique learning phase and chooses to capitalize on it by filling the child’s mind with language, music, art, history, etc… The parent can give the child a valuable beginning in education. This understanding of the young mind help prepare the parroting preschooler for the “only the facts” primary schooler.
Grammar
Usually what comes to mind when a one thinks of Grammar is nouns, verbs, sentence structure, etc… Actually it is the Grammar of life and education that the child is learning. First through Fourth grade is considered the Grammar Stage. Think of this stage as the facts stage. The child is learning the foundational facts that support all subjects. It is vital in this stage that the child learns the fundamentals of life: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, or the three R’s. Although science, history, art, music, etc… are also a part of education, they are given the backseat to the foundations of learning. It may again be tedious education, but the Grammar stage student loves the facts and wants to learn the facts of life. Just as a journalist has to gather all the facts to give a fair and balanced report on a subject, so to does the student need the grammar of subjects to later understand them. Finally, the Grammar Stage mind can in Fourth Grade start the study of Latin. Up until about 50 years ago in public schools, Latin was a required subject in High School. For whatever reason, now Latin only resides in the curriculum of choice private schools. Latin makes the Logical mind think more efficiently. The child is not learning a new language, but a more systematic, logical way to analyze information. Fourth grade is the gateway into the Logic Stage where the foundation of facts and beginning of logic based thinking prepares for the next stage: Logic Stage.
Has one ever noticed that toddlers love to hear the same story (especially rhyming ones) repeatedly? This is in essence what the “Poll Parrot” stage of learning is about. Preschoolers love to imitate and learn well through imitation, repetition, and memorization. This stage a parent should encourage memorization through imitation and repetition. Consider, for instance, a four-year-old and Dr. Seuss. The child has the parent read the stories over and over again, he/she then imitate the parent reading while reciting the story from memory. Parents feel that this is tedious, but the preschooler absolutely loves it and is, in fact, learning! This is also where the timeless phrase: “Garbage in, Garbage out” comes into play. The beauty of Classical Education is that its method takes into consideration this unique learning phase and chooses to capitalize on it by filling the child’s mind with language, music, art, history, etc… The parent can give the child a valuable beginning in education. This understanding of the young mind help prepare the parroting preschooler for the “only the facts” primary schooler.
Grammar
Usually what comes to mind when a one thinks of Grammar is nouns, verbs, sentence structure, etc… Actually it is the Grammar of life and education that the child is learning. First through Fourth grade is considered the Grammar Stage. Think of this stage as the facts stage. The child is learning the foundational facts that support all subjects. It is vital in this stage that the child learns the fundamentals of life: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, or the three R’s. Although science, history, art, music, etc… are also a part of education, they are given the backseat to the foundations of learning. It may again be tedious education, but the Grammar stage student loves the facts and wants to learn the facts of life. Just as a journalist has to gather all the facts to give a fair and balanced report on a subject, so to does the student need the grammar of subjects to later understand them. Finally, the Grammar Stage mind can in Fourth Grade start the study of Latin. Up until about 50 years ago in public schools, Latin was a required subject in High School. For whatever reason, now Latin only resides in the curriculum of choice private schools. Latin makes the Logical mind think more efficiently. The child is not learning a new language, but a more systematic, logical way to analyze information. Fourth grade is the gateway into the Logic Stage where the foundation of facts and beginning of logic based thinking prepares for the next stage: Logic Stage.
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