http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR5EhQ2ijaQ&feature=related
This is part 1 of a 3-part (24 min total) lecture describing some facets of the education of Jefferson. It sets a great benchmark for classical education. Not merely what to know, but the way the knowledge sought should function in life. Very good. If one strove for that vision not only with the classics, but also with the the Old and New Testaments, it’s hard to see how it could be beat.
Two take-away lines:
“Breaking bread with the dead”
“One didn’t graduate from an education in classical antiquity, one graduated into it, and stayed there.”
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