MATERIALS

Binder Method:

Print the content double-sided
Hole-punch everything
Arrange the content by section
Use colored tabs to separate the sections

Pythagoras, the first Philosopher

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A new zip file will be uploaded soon so for now the one below is missing a few of the newer documents.

All Binder Materials, zip file (click to download)

Preface

Cover Sheets

Includes front cover sheet, pre-intro section cover, and subject cover sheets.

Editor's Intro 

Discussion on Consciousness

3 Kinds of Critical Thinker

The Trivium Intro

Gene's Trivium Summary

NEW! Learning and the Trivium by Jarett Sanchez

Super's Lib. Ed. excerpts

The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers

Grammar

Gene's Grammar Summary

Parts of Speech Worksheets(website)

English Grammar Card - 8 Parts of Speech

Intro to Sentence Diagramming

Sentence Diagramming Worksheet

Less Than Words Can Say excerpt

Logic

Gene's Logic Summary

Basic Concepts of Logic (with exercises)

Short Intro to Formal Logic

Logical Fallacy Handlist

The Socratic Method

Rhetoric

Gene's Rhetoric Summary

Cline's Rhetoric pt1

Cline's Rhetoric pt2

Understanding Misunderstandings

A Plan For Teaching Rhetorical Invention

Visual Rhetoric: Writing About Photography

The Chreia, How To Talk excerpt

Mortimer Adler

How To Read A Book short

How To Mark A Book short

Adler - On Labor and Leisure

Extra Additions

Liberal Arts & the 21st Century by WR Connors

How To Talk excerpts (Clapp & Kane)

There is so much useful stuff in this book I would just go buy a copy right now if you can.

 Dr. John Nagy - Masonic (liberal arts) education and Brain Transformation.

Modern science is verifying what mystery schools have known all along.

Gene's summary for parents

A concise appeal to parents encouraging them to study the Trivium.

Gatto's 14 traits of elite private schools

14 traits of elite schools outlined by John Taylor Gatto in the video series "Elite Private Boarding Schools."

Sacred Geometry excerpt

Take a peak at some of the studies of the Quadrivium!

The Trivium - Subject, Method, and Skill (updated 03/13/12)

Convict Conditioning Cheat Sheet

Basic Chen Style Standing Meditation (Zhan Zhuang)

Basic Standing Meditation (non-Chen style)