One of the books on my elementary-grammar shelf is The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric, by Sister Miriam Joseph, published in 1937 and written to serve as a text for a ...

These arts include the trivium — grammar, logic, and rhetoric — and the quadrivium — music, astronomy, arithmetic, and geometry. The name “liberal” indicates that these subjects liberate ...

It will base its lessons around the “classical trivium” - with grammar, logic and rhetoric as the foundations of learning. Under this approach, pupils begin by being taught the value of ...

For those of you who were not classically educated, the trivium is the study of grammar, logic, and rhetoric and the quadrivium is the study of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.