Artes Liberales

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Artes Liberales was medieval and earlier nomenclature for the Trivium and Quadrivium (artes triviales and artes quadriviales), the education and training deemed suitable for free persons (Latin liber: free), as distinct from the artes illiberales for the less (or not) free, now broadly termed Vocational education.

The Trivium, the artes sermocinales:

• Grammar, Rhetoric, and Dialectic (language, oratory, logic)

The Quadrivium, the artes reales or physicæ:

• Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music

[edit] See also

• Classical education
• Liberal arts

[edit] References

• The Seven Liberal Arts, Catholic Encyclopedia