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What are the 3 components of the Trivium? Grammar, Dialectic (also known as Logic), and Rhetoric. What are the 4 components of the Quadrivium? Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, Astronomy.

Comparisons to other city-states:
Spartan education is public, Athenian is private.
Sparta educates for war, Athens for peace.
Childhood
(1 to 7 years)

Family education
Plays, myths, stories
Care of the mother

Boyhood (1 to 14 years, School)

Promenade to school under the care of a pedagogue
Music

Poetry, Homer, Hesiod.
Writing of verses from dictation
Reading, intonation, articulation.
Music proper. Doric airs accompanied by the lyre [...]

What sort of education did the ancient Spartan’s receive? Here is a list of their educational methods from birth to manhood, taken from the “Outline History of Education”.

Outline History of Education By Felix Arnold
This 109 page public domain book from 1911, written in outline form, details the many educational theories and style of education that has evolved over the course of human history. It’s a very interesting read for anyone who is interested in a psychological overview of education and [...]

The following 152 page textbook, Greek for Beginners, was published as a companion lesson text for 1884 Hadley-Allen Greek Grammar, a standard “classical text book”, used in the bygone days when all higher educated Americans learned Greek and studied the classics.  It was designed for the older beginning greek student (high school and beyond) includes [...]

Chronicles the history of man and civilization from primitive beginnings to the current day.
More details
The Story of Mankind
By Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Published by Boni and Liveright, 1921
489 pages
 
Read this entire book for free online here.

The classical method evokes the midieval style of learning that focuses on the Trivium.  It is a liberal arts education, with loads of reading some of the “best works in literature in the western world”. 
This method focuses on teaching children according to ages and their mental stages - building upon one another as the child reaches [...]