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A trivium comprised a 3 cases taught foremost within medieval universities, before a quadrivium. A word is Latin, meaning "the three ways" or even "the three roads", a beginning of the liberal arts. It too serves as a root for the conception of triviality. At numerous ancient universities, like Oxford, this would have been a main undergrad course.
Inside mediaeval training theory, a trivium consisted of grammar, rhetoric, and logic. These were considered preparative fields for the quadrivium, which was made higher of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. Successively, a quadrivium was considered preparative act for the good survey of philosophy and theology.
This schema is occasionally known as classical education, but these are extrthe accurately a development of the 12th and 13th centuries rather than a straight descendent of the training systems of antiquity.
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