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The Seven Liberal Arts of the Trivium and Quadrivium
What are the 3 components of the Trivium? Grammar, Dialectic (also known as Logic), and Rhetoric. What are the 4 components of the Quadrivium? Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, Astronomy.
Education and Use of the Trivium During the Middle Ages
The following article was found in the 1908 public domain book, A History of the Middle Ages By Dana Carleton Munro. You can download this entire book for free by clicking on the link above!
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DURING the early middle ages teaching was done wholly by the clergy. In some of the towns and villages there were elementary [...]
Pied Piper of Hamelin Language Arts Unit Study
Primary Education
Here is a semi-unit study on the Pied Piper of Hamlin for language arts.
The Pied Piper is a fairy tale of sorts about the abduction of children in Hamelin, Germany. This book contains background information, 2 8×10 posters, the full play, music score, and paper dolls. Other books from the library can be [...]
Charlotte Mason (CM) Method
Key Mottos:
“Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life”
“Education is the science of relations.”
Student’s Motto:
“I am, I can, I ought, I will.”
Charlotte Mason, a British educator who lived in the late 1800s, was one of the formost leaders in developing the view that all children - regardless of social status or gender - should [...]
