Description: A painted representation of the Trivium available as a high quality Trivium art print and valuable education aid with key to symbols by artist Brian Martin.
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“It prepares the mind to understand everything that can be taught in words.” John of Salisbury
The Trivium is a method and a model for thinking which for more than fifteen centuries was considered the best education a free person could receive in the Western world.
Like many people interested in the Trivium method today, I started researching education when I became a parent. I found my way to classical education through John Taylor Gatto’s critique of modern schooling and Dorothy L Sayers’ recommendation of the Trivium as an education for life. I wanted to understand the Trivium better, so I read John of Salisbury, Sister Miriam Joseph, books on Rhetoric…The Bibliography section gives a selected list. It is a vast subject, really without end, so I found I needed some