liberal arts (Re: it's the Science vs. Ideology show)

[frances bolton]

Dennis wrote:
>
>Anyone know the history of how the university academic disciplines were
>founded? Weren't there seven, originally, or something like that?
>

There were seven traditional liberal arts, separated into the  the
trivium -- grammar, rhetoric and logic;
and the quadrivium -- arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music.

They are still being taught at St John's College--the fussiest college in
the US.

Frances Bolton