Everything about Trivium Education totally explained
In
medieval universities, the
trivium comprised the three subjects taught first:
grammar,
logic, and
rhetoric. The word is a
Latin term meaning “the three ways” or “the three roads” forming the foundation of a
medieval liberal arts education. This study was preparatory for the
quadrivium.
Description
Grammar is the mechanics of a language;
logic (or
dialectic) is the "mechanics" of
thought and
analysis;
rhetoric is the use of language to instruct and persuade.
Sister Miriam Joseph described the three parts of the Trivium as:
Logic is the art of thinking; grammar, the art of inventing symbols and combining them to express thought; and rhetoric, the art of communicating thought from one mind to another, the adaptation of language to circumstance.
Another description is:
Logic is concerned with the thing as-it-is-known,
Grammar is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-symbolized, and
Rhetoric is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-communicated.
The study of logic, grammar and rhetoric was considered preparatory for the quadrivium, which was made up of
arithmetic,
geometry,
music, and
astronomy. The trivium was the beginning of the
liberal arts. At many
medieval universities this would have been the principal undergraduate course.
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