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Roman Catholic AnswerActually, the Church was really the force behind the establishment of liberal study. It had first been proposed by Plato in the Republic (III) and was later adopted by Christian educators (who were mostly priests and monks) as the foundation for more specialized study in law, medicine, and theology in the Middle Ages. These studies were divided into the trivium and the quadrivium:

The Trivium: the three primary branches in medieval education: grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic (logic).

The Quadrivium: the more advance program in medieval liberal arts education (beyond the trivium), namely arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.

(extracted from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980)

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