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PERENNIALISM

PERENNIALISM. The Role of Education. A perennialist education focuses on enduring themes and questions that span the ages. Perennialists believe that the goal of education should be to develop rational thought and to discipline minds to think rigorously.

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PERENNIALISM

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  1. PERENNIALISM

  2. The Role of Education • A perennialist education focuses on enduring themes and questions that span the ages. • Perennialists believe that the goal of education should be to develop rational thought and to discipline minds to think rigorously. • Perennialists see education as a sorting mechanism, a way to identify and prepare the intellectually gifted for leadership, while providing vocational training for the rest of society. • Many private schools teach in the perennial way of thinking with a curriculum that focuses on Great Books.

  3. Academic Curriculum • Students spend considerable time on reading, writing, and arithmetic, with the greatest importance placed on reading the Great Books. • Character training and values are transmitted through literature. • Virtually no electives and very few textbooks. • Oral examinations and essay writing. • Grades are received only upon request, and students are expected to learn for the sake of learning.

  4. The Classroom • There are not any trends in this classroom, everything is straight by the "great books“. • The perennial classroom is not full of colorful things of today’s time, this classroom is about the good things of the past. • The great books, reading, writing and arithmetic are the biggies in this classroom and the physical environment tapers around these three ideas.

  5. The Role of the School • to provide students with a place to safely learn • to provide students and teachers with the proper tools and resources needed to further their education. • a place to train the mind with timeless literature that will be useful for generations

  6. Uniqueness compared to other schools • The perennialist classroom provides no trends in the classroom • A perennialist education focuses on enduring themes and questions that span the ages. • Virtually no electives and very few textbooks. • All oral exams and writing assignments

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