Climbing Parnassus

Climbing Mount parnassus became a code for the painfully glorious exertions of greek and latin. The hard, precipitous path of classical education ideally led not to knowledge alone, but to the cultivation of mind and spirit. A classical education was the queen of all scholastic endeavors. It constituted the original humanity's curriculum. And among those gifts most sought was the civilizing, cultivating boon of eloquence of right and beautiful expression.