With regard to school curriculum, the perennialist believes that schooling in the early years is best directed toward preparation for maturity and emphasizes the three Rs. in the elementary schools. In this view, perennialism and essentialism share some common thoughts.

Some lay and ecclesiastical perennialists consider character training, enhanced through Bible study, as equally important at the elementary level. At the secondary level, the perennialists program of education becomes more directed towards the education of the intellectually elite perennialism favours trade and skill training for those students who are not engaged in the rigors of the general education programme.

Perennialists generally agree that the curriculum at the secondary level should provide a general education programme for the intellectually gifted and vocational training for the less gifted. All perennialists are not in agreement about the curriculum design for general education.

While it is true that the Great Books program associated with Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer Adler has brought the most attention to perennialism, other leaders in this movement do not support such a programme.

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Those who endorse the Great Books programme maintain that studying the works of the leading scholars of history is the best means to general education. Perennialists who do not favour the Great Books programme maintain that contemporary sources may be used to acquire knowledge. The ecclesiastical perennialists insist that all programme give priority to the study of theology.

1. What is perennialists view on school curriculum?

With regard to school curriculum, the perennialist believes that schooling in the early years is best directed toward preparation for maturity and emphasizes the three Rs. in the elementary schools.

2. Give the view regarding which perennialism and essentialism share some common thoughts?

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With regard to school curriculum, the perennialist believes that schooling in the early years is best directed toward preparation for maturity and emphasizes the three Rs. in the elementary schools. In this view, perennialism and essentialism share some common thoughts.

3. What is the perennialist’s programme of education at the secondary level?

At the secondary level, the perennialists program of education becomes more directed towards the education of the intellectually elite perennialism favours trade and skill training for those students who are not engaged in the rigors of the general education programme.

4. What is the best means to general education according to those who endorse the Great Books programme?

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Those who endorse the Great Books programme maintain that studying the works of the leading scholars of history is the best means to general education.

5. What should be the means for acquiring knowledge according to perennialists who do not favour the Great Books Programme?

Perennialists who do not favour the Great Books programme maintain that contemporary sources may be used to acquire knowledge.