Daniel Kontowski on trivium and quadrivium, the great books tradition and what are the arguments against classical education.
'In the great books interpretation of the classical education you read great books because they are important, and they are important because people disagree about their value, but they are talking about the ideas that, according to proponents of great books, are very close to the human nature. All humans are struggling and have been struggling for centuries with certain problems and certain ideas, and we're disagreeing about certain values that those books represented and argued about, and the disagreements between those books are becoming a history of our civilization.'
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