Classical education has roots that go very far back in history. The classical model builds on three levels of learning- grammar stage, logic stage, and the rhetoric stage. When we start out with building a knowledge base, we are in the grammar stage. The sciences, literature, the arts, history, and geography are learned with the aim of having a strong foundation of memorized facts to build upon. With that focus in mind, once the store of knowledge is sound we can begin delving into the hows...