>>24646474
As I said before I wanted to discuss what the difference is between classical studies and classical education. Both of these seem to be associated with an elite education in the West. This book mentions Classics/the Classics/classicists.

The wikipedia article on "Classics" says this:
>In Western civilization, the study of the Ancient Greek and Roman classics was considered the foundation of the humanities, and they traditionally have been the cornerstone of an elite higher education.

If I understand that sentence correctly it's not saying that Classics, meaning Classical Studies, was the cornerstone of an elite higher education, but rather THE classics (written with "the" and lower case), meaning Ancient Greek and Roman literature, not necessarily Ancient Greek and Roman literature in general, but rather it's just saying that books from Ancient Greece and Rome constituted the cornerstone of such an education. It's very unclear. And it's further muddled by the fact that when you read about Classical Education and Liberal Arts these two were/are also part of an elite higher education, even though these three things don't seem to be the same thing, or at least the first one is not necessarily the same as the last two, the last two seem to be interchangeable. I'm researching all this but I was just wondering if anybody knew a lot about it and could shed some light on it. The book in picrel always says Classics in upper case however it sometimes says "the Classics" and sometimes "Classics" without "the". It's all very dumb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrivium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_school

Furthermore if you research the Prussian education system you will learn that it was designed to teach the Trivium to the top 0.5% of the population while suppressing it for the bottom 99.5%. This system originated in Prussia in the 19th century and was then exported to the rest of the Western World and it is the system we have now. The last link above is about a type of school where they studied nothing but the Trivium for 8 years and it says the grammar part of it consisted of Latin and Greek. Today they study these things in Freemasonry.

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/503426619

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/503426619/#503427241