Our Philosophy
The Dialectic Phase: Reason, Analysis, Understanding
Formal logic, correct argumentation, analysis of information and deductive and inductive models of reasoning comprise the “master faculties” at what has traditionally been called the “Pert Stage” of childhood development.
Students use the tools they have acquired to develop understanding and advance theories and arguments based on logical processes. In this stage, learning in all traditional subjects continues allowing students who have mastered the foundational “grammar” of a subject focus on analyzing the “hows” and “whys” of a subject through discussion, Socratic questioning, deduction, and constructive criticism. Students are encouraged to ask questions and develop answers systematically; assertively challenging fallacious arguments, faulty reasoning, and unsound thought processes. Learning through this phase and mastering “the tools” of questioning, logical reasoning, and analysis is critical to the proper growth of the imagination and is the basis of the final stage of the Trivium.
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