7th Grade Trivium is based on gaining comfort with public speaking and becoming familiar with civil discourse. This is accomplished through daily Socratic Seminars that are meant to focus the students on being able to express their opinions and assert their beliefs. This is meant to be done in a respectful and learning-enhancing way.
The topics that are discussed in this trimester-long course would be excellent discussion points to have with your families around the dinner table or in conversations with friends and family!
Below is an archive of some of the quotes we have already had Socratic Seminars about in class. The list is always growing!
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"Be kind, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
"A person that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else."
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
"The road to success is always under construction."
"You can't win unless you know how to lose."
"If you were another person, would you like to be a friend of yours?"
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
"Like a ten-speed bike, most of us have gears we don't use."
"Some of us are like wheelbarrows, useful only when pushed and very easily upset"
"Choose your socks by their color and your friends by their character. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense. Choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
"People don't get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other."
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those take the credit. He he told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
"There is no time like the present."