Trivium 21c ltd.

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  • Where Gradgrind Got It Right; Teaching the Trivium: On Grammar

    Although I don’t like to talk about it I’ve got a soft spot for Gradgrind. Not exactly a sympathetic character, I know, but let’s look beyond his, er, how shall we say… foibles… for a minute and look at his emphasis on Facts. “Fact, fact, fact!” repeated Thomas Gradgrind.” THOMAS GRADGRIND, sir. A man of realities. A Read more

  • Bearing Gifts We Traverse Afar: A Trivial Christmas Wish

    The Magi, magicians and astrologers three, the wise mysterious men of their age, followed a star to see what wonder might unfold. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. A child is born. What future shall we behold? What gifts can lift burdens and enable a flourishing life? And when they had opened Read more

  • On Dialectic: Dissoi Logoi – Teaching the Trivium

    Plato saw dialectic as a way of refining opinions to reveal truth. Aristotle saw dialectic as remaining in the world of ‘opinion,’ (with logic being the way to reveal truth). In the ‘Topics’ Aristotle talks of dialectic as probable ideas being discussed in a spirit of enquiry, with the result likely to be opinion rather than certainty. To Aristotle Read more

  • Tell Us About Your Blog (Or Somebody Else’s): The New Spreadsheet

    Originally posted on The Echo Chamber: There is now a new spreadsheet of UK Education bloggers available here, based on the latest version of the list of bloggers. If you are a blogger, please fill in and check your details. Even if you aren’t, any time you can spare to look up and fill in… Read more

  • From the sublime… On Beauty, Eloquence, Grit and Resilience

    … to 1977. The filth and the fury… Never mind the bollocksed grey seventies, the two glorious summers of 76 and 77 did not sate my teenage angst. Sex and Pistol were frightening a whole nation and bringing it to its knees. Little did we know that the bastions of the establishment: the church, media, Read more

  • Master* Teachers: Community and Expertise

      “Obsessing about quality is a way of subjecting the work itself to relentless generic pressure; workers given over to this passion can dominate or detach themselves from others less driven. Both are dangers…” Richard Sennett: The Craftsman Whilst writing Trivium 21c I came across the work of Richard Sennett, I would recommend his writing Read more