trivium
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈtrɪviəm/
- Archaic
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trivio
- You are likely a sad product of the teachers' union and have no concept of The Trivium—grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
- trivium and quadrivium
So you would have, for example, the trivia, which meant study of grammar, study of rhetoric, and study of dialectics or, or logic.
- So you would have, for example, the trivia, which meant study of grammar, study of rhetoric, and study of dialectics or, or logic.
Examples
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In the High Middle Ages, for example, the term "technology" might easily have referred to the systematic approach used to integrate one component of the university curriculum (e.g., the portion of the trivium covering the art of grammar within the larger curriculum based on the Seven Liberal Arts).
Academic text (2015) -
First there was the trivium, the three liberal arts dealing principally with language: grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
Academic text (1991) -
So there you have it, a quote and a random piece of Trivium that you can play with.
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So you would have, for example, the trivia, which meant study of grammar, study of rhetoric, and study of dialectics or, or logic.
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There are also curricula based on Charlotte Mason/The Trivium/Waldorf/Latin Centered, etc. (An example of these might be Singapore Math/Science.)
Blog text (21) -
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 students studied the trivium, which included grammar, logic, and rhetoric, to prepare for advanced coursework.
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In medieval universities, the trivium was essential for teaching the foundational skills necessary for further education.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Trivium comes from the Latin parts tri- 'three' and via 'road', and it first meant a place where three roads meet. In the Middle Ages teachers used that picture of 'three roads' for the three basic subjects — grammar, logic and rhetoric — so the trivium became the foundation students learned before other studies.