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Logic School Pedagogy

At The Cambridge School, traditional middle school years of seventh and eighth grade are referred to as the logic school. During these years, students begin to shift from mastering foundational knowledge to thoughtfully engaging with it. Building upon the habits formed in the grammar stage, they learn to reason from a posture of empathy, considering multiple perspectives before arriving at principled conclusions. Through a Socratic model of inquiry, students are invited into dialogue and debate, honing their ability to argue with both clarity and charity. Logic emerges not merely as an isolated subject, but as a guiding framework across disciplines, equipping students to more effectively access and articulate truth, reason soundly, and engage with the world around them from a posture of enthusiasm, understanding, and discernment. And, as is true across all stages of education at The Cambridge School, the classroom remains a space where teachers, as masterful guides, foster a love for truth, goodness, and beauty, modeling the intellectual and moral virtues they seek to cultivate in their students.

Why Logic?

The Logic School at The Cambridge School consists of grades 7 to 8.

This stage of the Trivium can be described in terms of its pedagogy, curriculum, and culture.

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Logic School Curriculum

Logic serves as both a dedicated area of study and a foundational skill set that permeates our entire curriculum. Students acquaint themselves with informal fallacies and argumentation structures alongside concepts from formal logic—concepts that naturally resonate with adolescents' inclination to debate. These logical skills and analytical postures are then actively applied across all subjects, as students critically evaluate texts, presentations, and peer arguments in history, literature, science, and other traditional subjects including math, Latin, music, and art.

Logic School Culture

While imitation remains a pedagogical tool at all stages of education at The Cambridge School, the logic stage equips maturing adolescents with increased autonomy as they begin to find and refine their own voice in conversation with the great works of the past, their teachers, and their peers. Classroom discussions and Socratic seminars are animated, inquisitive, and fruitful. Students are taught to attend to diverse voices while staking their own claim within a community of motivated truth-seekers.

Grammar

The primary goal for our grammar school is to build foundations with great intentionality, cultivate wonder for the beauty and order of God and his creation, and delight in the true, good, and beautiful.

Every aspect of the student and families’ educational experience has been intentionally cultivated over time and refined every year.

Logic

When children become naturally argumentative, the logic stage teaches students to engage in debate and discussions thoughtfully and charitably.

Students are taught Socratically and are trained in informal and formal logic. This logical training spans all disciplines and is cultivated in tandem with intellectual and moral virtues.

Rhetoric

The culmination of a rich and intentional education, the rhetoric stage introduces greater nuance and further complication to the foundational skills gained in the previous stages.

This rhetorically oriented education strives to cultivate students who are fluent in multiple literacies and equipped to thoughtfully dialogue with the many competing voices around them.