The 'Scholarly' Option

There were two types of medieval curricula. Firstly, Schools of Grammar and Rhetoric, designed to produce students for admittance to university. The subjects taught being divided into two branches according to a Late Classical division: the Trivium (grammar, rhetoric and dialectics) and the Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy), Secondly, Calculus School, created for future businessmen.

There was additionally a third, unofficial kind of school, this being the workshop itself, where children, through apprenticeship, could learn everything they needed in order to be good craftsmen.