The Trivium--The Lost Tools of Learning

[markeverett49]

I love this essay by Dorothy L Sayers and wondered if others also do.

gbt.org/text/sayers.html

Logic, rhetoric, and grammar comprise the trivium, the disciplines that train the mind.

 

[josephback]

Long essay. I sympathize with the basic premise of teaching people to think. I learned of the Trivium idea in homeschool, otherwise I’d say “Trivium, what’s that?” I never learned Grammar in earnest until studying Spanish and Greek.

 

[markeverett49]

It was only after taking up Latin that I learned grammar. (Not that I’m a know-it-all now, but it makes much more sense to me now than it did when I took “English Grammar” in school.)

Sister Miriam Joseph’s book “The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric” is a treasure.

 

[Qoeleth]

I love this essay by Dorothy L Sayers and wondered if others also do.

gbt.org/text/sayers.html

Logic, rhetoric, and grammar comprise the trivium, the disciplines that train the mind.

I suggest that grammar is the only important field of learning. As an extreme nominalist, it seems to me that all knowledge amounts to knowledge of language- even mathematics, since mathematics is a symbolic language with a grammar.

Vere sapiens est homo qui scit nihil sed verba.

By the bye, what be the vocative of ‘ego’??

 

[markeverett49]

I think extreme nominalism makes it hard to know what grammar is, let alone knowledge…

 

[greylorn]

I love this essay by Dorothy L Sayers and wondered if others also do.

gbt.org/text/sayers.html

Logic, rhetoric, and grammar comprise the trivium, the disciplines that train the mind.

Thank you for your introduction to a wonderful mind.

I would love to have been taught according to her style.

I adore her thinking, and if time permits, will do what I can to put it to good work.