quadrivium

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• In medieval universities, students studied the quadrivium after mastering the trivium.

• So have you, have you heard the terms like Trivium and quadrivium before?

  Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

• That's why music could, in fact, later on in the Middle Ages, become one of the the quadrivium with the liberal arts that had to do with what?

• This was followed by the quadrivium, the other four liberal arts dealing principally with number: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.

  Academic text (1991)

• In 999, citizens thought the year 1000 would herald one of three things: the world would end, there would be a second coming, or educators would return to the basics and adopt the quadrivium as the curriculum of the next century.

  Academic text (1992)

• While the "two cultures" are as old as the academic trivium and quadrivium, I saw the pathological split represented by Stevens as a modern invention; Jefferson and Franklin, for example, were both competent scientists of their age as well as competent writers and philosophers.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The riddle of existence is the college curriculum that was laid before the Pharaohs, that was taught in the groves by Plato, that formed the trivium and quadrivium, and is today laid before the freedmen's sons by Atlanta University.

  Academic text (2002)

• It was, in its time, an "instructional technology"; the approach was a systematic, rule-based instructional method that all students within both the trivium and the quadrivium were required to master before completion of a university degree (Ridder-Symoens, 1992).

  Academic text (2015)

• The quadrivium consists of four subjects that shape a well-rounded education: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.

• Understanding the quadrivium is essential for anyone interested in the history of education during the Middle Ages.

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