Trivium
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 Trivium facts

• In the medieval university, the trivium was the lower division of the seven liberal arts, and comprised grammar, logic, and rhetoric (input, process, and output)
• The trivium is implicit in the De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ("On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury"), by Martianus Capella, although the term was not used until the Carolingian Renaissance, when the term was coined, in imitation of the earlier quadrivium
• Grammar, logic, and rhetoric were essential to a classical education, as explained in Plato's dialogues
• Together, the three subjects were included to and denoted by the word "trivium" during the Middle Ages, but the tradition of first learning those three subjects was established in ancient Greece
• Contemporary iterations have taken various forms, including those found in certain British and American universities (some being part of the Classical education movement)