From Quadrivium to... Trivium

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Beauty for Truth's Sake was nearly the 4 liberal arts known collectively equally the Quadrivium. I wanted it to hold upward equally practically helpful equally possible to people working to reintegrate wisdom as well as a feel of beauty as well as the sacred dorsum into education. On this weblog as well as on the primary site where the mass is listed I proceed to house cloth to supplement what is inwards the book. One of the resources I recommended is a serial of piffling paperbacks published past times Wooden Books on topics such equally Harmony, Sacred Geometry, Astronomy, etc. Now the publisher has rolled all these piffling books into i impressive textbook, the comprehend of which is reproduced on the right. I idea you'd similar to know!

So that is the Quadrivium. But that is exclusively 4 of the vii liberal arts. Maybe forthwith nosotros should plough our attending to the remaining three, the Trivium of grammar, logic as well as rhetoric. According to Hugh of Saint Victor, summarizing the tradition inwards the high Middle Ages, "Grammar is the cognition of how to verbalise without error; dialectic is clear-sighted declaration which separates the truthful from the false; rhetoric is the bailiwick of persuading to every suitable thing." The Quadrivium is nearly mathematical symbols as well as geometry (numbers as well as shapes), patch the Trivium is nearly verbal symbols as well as the arts of language. The involvement of educators inwards the Trivium and inwards the Classical Curriculum by as well as large was fuelled past times a famous essay of Dorothy Sayers called "The Lost Arts of Learning". (There is likewise a classic textbook on the dependent past times Sister Miriam Joseph). It is widely agreed that the skills of speaking, thinking, remembering, communicating as well as debating are endangered past times a civilization of minute electronic social networking, images as well as sound-bites. Yet if nosotros cannot mean value for ourselves, what becomes of our freedom?

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