Therein lies a large part of the failure of Modern education. If the tools are acquired at all, it is often incidentally. Where Classical Education focused upon forging and mastering these tools of self-learning, Modern Education focuses only upon the material to be learned. With the tools of the Trivium, the student can teach himself anything. We believe it is imperative to re-establish the Trivium syllabus of Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom as the basis of our curriculum.
Logic is the Science of Reasoning.
Every science is occupied with detecting and describing the natural and unalterable laws which rule a particular field of knowledge. Logic, as a science, investigates the natural and unalterable laws of reason. Every other science is or at least should be the application of the science of Logic to observations in a particular field of knowledge. Hence the study of Logic is foundational to the study of every other subject. The formal study of Logic should therefore be considered a foundational and indispensable part of every educational curriculum.