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Classical Liberal Arts education is a millennia-old philosophy consisting of the liberal arts of the Trivium and Quadrivium. The Trivium consisted of logic, grammar, and rhetoric. The Trivium is the three arts of language pertaining to the mind. The second part of the liberal arts, the Quadrivium consisted of the subjects of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. While the Quadrivium were the subjects, the Trivium were the methods of dealing with subjects. Classical liberal arts education is an unfamiliar concept in main-stream American education, however the Trivium formed the base of education during the classical times, the Middle Ages, and the post-Renaissance. During the Founding Era in America, Classical Education produced the likes of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Daniel Webster, and Frederick Douglas.

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There is evidence that schools utilizing a liberal arts model existed in Egypt long before the Athenians documented liberal arts education in Greece (Cook, 2014). Between 4,400 and 4,000 B.C., Egypt (then known as Kemet) instituted in their Mystery Schools, seven liberal arts. There is also evidence that Greek philosophers (e.g., Thales, Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato) studied from the Mystery Schools in ancient Egypt. Ancient Greek thinkers and teachers brought back to Greece what they learned from Egypt and incorporated it into their teaching.

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Maintaining the Egyptians’ hunger for knowledge, Alexander the Great launched explorations and scientific research of the lands he conquered. He paved the way for the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, which was commissioned by Ptolemy in 295 B.C. During the next 3 centuries, the Library’s collection swelled to between 200,000 and 700,000 texts! The Library at Alexandria was the learning center of the world – the ancient’s equivalent to the internet. It was said that all ships docking at the port city of Alexandria underwent a mandatory search where any manuscript that was found was confiscated. The manuscripts were taken to the Library and added to the collection, but not before scribes would make a copy and return it to the ship, along with payment for the original. Other books were procured from across the known world. Unfortunately, the Library became a casualty of Roman invasion when the Egyptian fleet was burned and the fire spread to the buildings along the coast. It has been said that the loss of information at the Library of Alexandria set civilization back hundreds of years. Imagine the internet suddenly ceasing to exist and how much that would slow down innovation and progress!

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The University of Alexandria, K-8 Cyber School is a tribute to the Library of Alexandria. U of A provides information to students through the power of the internet using the time-tested Classical Liberal Arts Educational approach. Just like scholars in ancient times would find their way to the Library of Alexandria, students in Michigan will come to the University of Alexandria K-8 Cyber School for the very best in tuition-free online education!

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