The Philosophers
Trivium and Quadrivium
Etymologies
Fill in the blank Quotes
A brief history of Classical Education
100

The gadfly of Athens because he annoyed everyone with his questions 

Socrates 

100

This subject is the art of persuasion 

Rhetoric

100

Based on its roots philosophy means simply 

love of wisdom 

100

All men by nature desire _________. Aristotle, Metaphysics 

To know

100

Plato’s ideal ruler and model citizen was the educated _______

The philosopher-king 
200

Rome’s most famous philosopher and orator, his name means chickpea, but he used to be known by the nickname Tully

Marcus Tullius Cicero

200

Traditionally described as the study of quantities 

Arithmetic 

200

The word liberal in liberal arts derives from the Latin word for:

“Free”

200

When threatened with enough Persians arrows to block out the sun, the Spartan Leonidas replied, "Won't that be nice, then..."

We can fight in the shade.

200

The aim of Roman education was to...

Participate in Roman public life 

300

St Thomas Aquinas refers to him simply as The Philosopher.

Aristotle

300

Traditionally described as the study of magnitudes 

Geometry 

300

A method of argumentation in the Middle Ages, meaning literally “to think in two ways”

Disputation 

300

What Spartan women told their men when they handed them their shields for battle “Come back ________or ______.”

With it or on it

300

The medieval philosophy of education and instruction; later derided by the early modern thinkers 

Scholasticism 

400

He tangled with Martin Luther and is often  called the Prince of [Classical] Humanism

Erasmus 

400

The other name for the subject of Logic

Dialectic

400

So called because they are the virtues upon which all other virtues “hinge”

Cardinal virtues 

400

When asked where he was from Socrates said, “I am a citizen of _______”

The world

400

The study of classical learning during the Renaissance came to be called 

Humanism 

500

Alfred North Whitehead said tha all philosophy was merely footnotes to _____.

Plato

500

In effect it is the study of geometry in motion

Astronomy 

500

Originally it meant simply “manliness” deriving from the Latin word for man (vir)

Virtue 
500

Erasmus: When I have a little money I buy _______. If I have any left I buy clothes and food.

Books 

500

This Catholic religious order organized classical education in a more formal structure known as the Ratio Studiorum

The Jesuits 

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