Inquiry...

Classical education is not, preeminently, of a specific time or place. It stands instead for a spirit of inquiry and form of instruction concerned with the development of style through language and of conscience through myth. The key word here is inquiry. Everything springs from the special nature of the inquiry. The inquiry dictates the form of instruction and establishes the moral framework for thought and action. Classical inquiry possesses three attributes. The first is general curiosity...Second,one responds to these questions by forming imaginative hypotheses...Third, one completes the inquiry by devising methods for testing the hypotheses.
~David Hicks, Norms and Nobility, p.18