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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 [...]
The Lost Tools of Learning (by Dorothy Sayers)
By Dorothy L. Sayers
Historical Note: This essay spawned the re-birth of classical education training in America, specifically among the homeschooling movement.
That I, whose experience of teaching is extremely limited, should presume to discuss education is a matter, surely, that calls for no apology. It is a kind of behavior to which the present climate of [...]
Classical Education Method
The classical method evokes the midieval style of learning that focuses on the Trivium. It is a liberal arts education, with loads of reading some of the “best works in literature in the western world”.
This method focuses on teaching children according to ages and their mental stages - building upon one another as the child reaches [...]
