Thus the classics are the main-stay of the curriculum. The one method which has entrenched itself into traditionalism is that method of rote memory and imitation. The lecture method gained prominence during the period of medieval history and has to this day embraced its counterpart in traditionalism. There are absolute and universal principles that exist. The efficient cause of truth is man.
Truth is always the same for all men who learn.
Because freedom is a self-evident principle, its result is freedom. Therefore man becomes free when he realizes in actuality his potentialities and when this freedom is acquired through reasoning. Education maintains a strict divorcement from the practical, mundane considerations attendant upon vocational or professional preparation. The educator is faced to seek a formulation of the aims of education in harmony with the purpose of God. All educational aims are unvarying.