Whoever handles the lighting, set design, music, video, etc, knows exactly what they’re doing.

First of all, the quality of this video is amazing. The message is fantastic as well. Presented in a clear and engaging way. I have been searching for a book like this after reading Milton’s “Tractate on Education.” Thanks so much for sharing and looking forward to reading it. Please keep up the amazing work!

Sir, your language does justice to the subject matter. Loved it.

My Son aged 13 years is in The "Norwich School" but He's now off to Eton College. Thankyou for your presentation

Excellent!!

I am 63. I am working through volume 1 of ATHENAZE and hope to begin vol 2 in 2025. I can currently read parts of the Gospels. I hope in years to come to be able to read Epictetus and other philosophers. I have proven to myself that learning languages is mostly about consistent effort over an extended period of time. Thank you for this great video. (I don't know if I will live long enough to make it to Latin. )

Perfect! I was employed in our local public school system for a total of 3 months. Within the first week I knew I needed to keep my kids away from the environment. With a first grader who loves to learn and a toddler on their way I found classical education prudent.

I'm an African American. I love this idea, especially Classic Education Lite mixed with a global review of literature. I feel both attached to the Greeks and Romans as well as Confucius, Buddha, and the proverbs of West African priest.

Absolutely outstanding!

I absolutely adore his use of a little legal speech; really the whole presentation is brilliant.

Thank you for this video! It inspires me to start learning Latin and Greek. I hope to persevere even with a busy schedule. Keep up the excellent content! 👏

This is absolutely beautiful. Well done, Memoria Press! ❤

This is so exciting! Climbing Parnassus was my favorite read of 2023.

Thank You Sir for reveal me the bok and the writer. Thank you again.🎉

Thanks for this video. I will read this Book Professor.

This seems to miss the whole point of a truly classic education. That's grounded in the Trivium of grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic, the user's manual of the human mind, that teaches students how to think efficiently, quickly, and rightly. And in the Quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music, which teaches students how to apply those skills of thinking to understand, control, and improve the reality around us. The classic literature touted here is necessary, of course, but without an elementary education in those Seven Liberal Arts they are incomprehensible, even if one has been hammered into learning Greek and Latin.

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Bravo 😊

Your discussion of certain chapters posing difficulty to modern readers calls to mind a chapter from The Closing of The American Mind entitled “From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede.” That one was ROUGH! 😂

There is *_another kind of education_* not mentioned here. It is a touch of the classical and the practical, mixed with the entertaining and illustrative, along with the self-critical and imaginative. 😎♥✝🇺🇸💯 Infinity Dynamics Foundation and University

Painless effective education probably does not exist. But people insist on these for one hundred years and blamed teachers. Now we see the results these days where the universities and politics are taken over by ideology and pure nonsenses. The societies consider college education irrelevant. Political discourses are just ways to get more funding for interest groups. Politicians are just political technicians or PR people.

I’d love to become a classical education teacher. I a bit hesitant to go sign up for my local community college to get started do to not knowing if it’s even the training I’d want. I’m 45 starting this. I did do some classical education with my children through elementary school and a bit of middle school. Do you have any suggestions on where I could start?

Two words. Stoic and Trivium.

Despite the classical virtue of making true, objective judgments, short shrift was given here to the many and varied reasons that admiration of Greece and Rome waned in the West. All changes from pre-modern culture are suggested to be something low, cheap, and vaguely communist. The limitations and weaknesses of traditional societies, their significant prejudices and injustices toward women, slaves, non-whites, non-Christians, and others did not break the serene surface of the presentation. The potential defects of democracy are alluded to, but not a gesture is made to the problems of aristocracy, of unmerited elitist exclusion. Amazingly, it's as if things were just ever so lovely throughout the whole of the classical and post-classical West until Lenin and company came along. Who could have possibly complained about anything except those "sleepy" yet "howling" souls unwilling to accept their assigned place in the natural or God-given order-and to learn Greek and Latin? Of course we have much to learn from the classics and their languages, but despising the new because it is new, or change because it is change, is no more valid than despising the old because it is old. Conservative politics should not be confused with respect for the classics. I believe Plato would be the first to say that his Socrates-executing society was not better than ours. And there was no "classical education" among οἱ πολλοί in ancient Greece; widespread, public education for rich and poor, male and female alike is a quite modern invention.

Hoc amo.

We have the cheap way out , the instant answer devoid of the fundamentals of meaning.

Where would you recommend we start learning?

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Trigger warning: I'm an advanced Postmodernist. I love Classical Greek and Roman Literature. And I think it should be an option for first graders along with Diary of a Wimpy Kid. When Deconstructed, Aristotle's Rhetoric is The Bobby Fisher Teaches Chess of persuasive conversations, pick up and sales. However, what Modernists both infantile postmodernists and conservatives share but are unaware of, is that forcing people to read or learn a certain curriculum can only bring it's equal and opposite reaction. Don't worry, thousands of Latin, etc. readers worldwide are connecting on the internet and Latin is stronger than ever. There was also an insane pronoun culture war in early 19th Century Germany. The King of Prussia wanted a united German Church. But the Calvinists and Lutherans fought over; "God Bless Thee" or "God Bless Thou". It became quite heated as it was a common every encounter phrase at the time. By the way, In the Autobiography of Malcolm X he said that he read Herodotus. So, I picked it up and loved it. Every Ancient book after that was so good. It was like science fiction, a whole new genre opened to my eyes. I did it totally by myself in high school. I've read the works of European Philosophy, Literature and Black Literature. Indian and Chinese. I lived in the UK and France dans la légion étrangère françaiser. Relax Ecclesiastes 1:9

I really like this, and it certainly is not false, but what if it is critically incomplete? What if there is an even deeper foundation that reveals even more and shows something critically important missing from this view? With any knowledge of classical thought, you know its power is as expressed in this video, but how does that interact with another great power, instinct? Can you even consider instinct after the cultural blindness to it we exist in? Much of that comes from "The Church" teachings that humans have no instincts, because that would mean that they are animals instead of divine. Besides, our greatest tools of understanding are based on logic and reason of critical thinking, but instincts are based on the trial and error of evolution with its large component of chance. Reason may not help much with such a slippery topic. Just consider survival instinct, which should be our most powerful instinct. Oh, but you cannot consider it. You have no name for it. Heck, even the French have no name for it. Better still, you have even already forgotten that this paragraph is about instinct. It's just how people think... or don't and instinct does not fit in your mind. Still, it is your oldest and most powerful instinct, even more powerful than your moral instinct that decides what is right and wrong, based on the moral system it knows. It is your survival instinct that makes you choose right. As this video says, there is a great power to words. If you only knew that name of your survival instinct. it would strengthen and enlarge your world more than you would imagine. I am a biologist and was looking for how to release and strengthen our instincts enough to survive the massive changes occurring. Knowledge of the classics alone will not be enough. The essential truths of classical education might be though... if you could sift them out, even without the Latin or Greek. English evolved from them, contains them, and it is a great language that is richer than either. It is the essential lessons of classical education that matters, as they interact with instinct, that matters. The trick is to know what lessons those are. Philosophy can provide great knowledge, but it takes a knowledge of instinct (and biology) to tell what of that knowledge really matters to a human. ... Also, biology, ecology in particular, is what I use to describe the changes that humanity faces, and it shows some important new details that are not in the classical knowledge. Here's a fun part for you. I say the same things as the video does about the importance of classical education for the same reasons, as well as the critical need for releasing and developing instincts. I'll skip that discussion, but here is another. What happened to classical education might be different than you think. Civil War letters showed a mastery of classical knowledge. I found a 1910 grammar school syllabus that included philosophy. Whan did it become considered an archaic knowledge, as it too commonly is now? ... From my book: World War I demonstrated the power and wealth of science. The ancient war between science and religion was decisively won in the 1925 Scopes trial, but religion was not the only thing damaged. Philosophy was a collateral casualty. What if that victory by science was Pyric? Science is a jealous mistress. It claims all authority over knowledge and truth, even though it is not good at teaching understanding or even reason. STEM is almost all we teach now, besides perhaps art. (Luckily this is incorrect.) No Home Economics, no Civics, no Manual Arts... What else was lost and does it hurt science? It does. It hurts so many things. Philosophy used to be taught in grammar school. It needs to be again, for science, for healthy families, for mental health, for healthy societies, for so many things. It is the foundation our science, knowledge, government and even our civilization was built upon. They shall not endure without it. Yes indeedee, science killed philosophy. Now that would be some meme warfare for you. I'm currently writing an essay about how almost every social ill from population decline to the battle of the sexes to drug addiction could be solved by teaching philosophy along with reading and writing. It might even be true.

I like the Classical Education thing Except I think it focuses too little on Christianity

I'd be willing to listen to a defense of classical education, but -- after listening for a third of this -- the speaker just repeats that it's good, without feeling the need to support the claim. The movement toward democracy has made it no longer possible to sustain a society in which one percent of the population received an education. What about the Chinese? They seem to be impressive contributors to civilization, not excluding the many benefits immigrants from China have brought to the United States. Not a Latin or Greek scholar among them. Should we contemplate requiring Eight-Legged Essays on the Confucian Classics? -- they certainly were 'hard'. Just as we cannot continue to make do with an elite class of One-Percent, so we cannot continue to restrict "culture" to Western Europe. Western Europe gave us Auschwitz, and the atomic bomb dropped on two non-military targets. Genghis Khan, no slouch at conducting massacres, nonetheless listened to the value of not killing productive citizens. Neither Hitler nor Stalin did. Genghis did not have the benefit of classical education, while both Hitler and Stalin did. The latter even went to a seminary. So no, let us broaden our horizons about what is worthwhile in humane letters; let us study the history of the world, rather than that of a long-deceased belligerent empire.

"The Romans leave a desert and call it peace." Tacitus. This video is selective memory and arrogant snobbery at its worst. The Good-Old-Days trope is the contrast of the best of yesterday with the worst of today and then conjuring astonishment that the former wins such a comparison.

This make no sense. If Greek and Latin is so important to read the poems etc in original language, then the Bible must not be read other than in Hebrew. These languages consumed much precious time that should have been used for environment study, french etc.