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Latin grammar is literally trivial, because it was a part of the trivium in traditional liberal arts education. You did not study the grammar in order to use t
by jltsiren 3y ago
Latin grammar is literally trivial, because it was a part of the trivium in traditional liberal arts education.
You did not study the grammar in order to use the language but to understand the structure of it. You also studied logic to understand the structure of ideas and arguments, and rhetoric to communicate them. Then you proceeded to the quadrivium to study arithmetic, geometry, music theory, and astronomy.
- canjobear 3y agoUnderstanding Latin was absolutely the goal of grammar schools in the time when most written educated discourse happened in Latin.
- jltsiren 3y agoIt was, but that has nothing to do with name "grammar school". In the liberal arts tradition that goes back to the ancient Greece, you studied grammar, logic, and rhetoric to learn to think and argue properly. Those were considered prerequisites to learning anything real. Grammar was considered the most fundamental of the three, which is why it was taught in the lowest-level schools.