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the three roads every mind must walk before it's allowed an opinion.
means the medieval foundation of education—grammar, logic, and rhetoric—teaching you to speak correctly, think correctly, then persuade.
from latin for 'the place where three roads meet,' from tri- (three) + via (road); where trivial roads crossed, common folk gossiped, hence 'trivia' meant common knowledge—ironic since the trivium was anything but basic.
came beforethe quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy.
word cousintrivia literally means 'of the crossroads.'
order mattersgrammar teaches facts, logic connects them, rhetoric sells them.
still aliveclassical education revival uses it as its spine.