![]() The trivium is a movement from distinct parts into a synthesized whole. The trivium, she says, is the instrument of all education at all levels because the arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric govern the means of communication-namely reading, writing, speaking, and listening. She also states it in this way: grammar is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-symbolized logic is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-known and rhetoric is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-communicated.2 Sister Miriam Joseph defined the trivium as the three arts of language pertaining to the mind: grammar is the art of inventing and combining symbols (letters and words) logic is the art of thinking and rhetoric is the art of communication. In the rhetoric stage, one expresses that conclusion/truth to others. In the logic stage, one arranges, connects, organizes, compares, and reasons with the facts learned and draws a conclusion(s). Put another way, in the grammar stage, one accumulates the fundamental elements, features, and facts of a body of knowledge. In the trivium, grammar is language, logic (dialectic) is thought, and rhetoric is expression. The four-stage sequence is rooted in the trivium- grammar, logic, and rhetoric. ![]() Discovering and internalizing the Central One Idea in a great work is vital for proper reading and for cultivating wisdom and virtue.1 There are four stages of acquisition and expression that can be used to lead the student (and teacher) to this Central One Idea. ![]()
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