The Trivium - Classical Education

The Trivium or the classical education involving grammar, logic and rhetoric has begun to stage a comeback especially with the religious. The only problem with this education is that it is really a false proxy. (Proxies allow people to take shortcuts so they don't have to actually go through the work of determining competence.) Logic is great but science is better because science requires evidence, logic does not. The courts also prefer evidence to logic as well. It is important to remember that the Trivium didn't stop slavery, the Inquisition or the Holocaust.