The lycées, maintained by tuition fees and state scholarships, taught the ancient languages, rhetoric, logic, ethics, mathematics, and physical science.
That is a legacy of Napoleon, who codified the curriculum classics, history, rhetoric, logic, maths and physics by an imperial decree in 1808.
William withdrew to the nearby abbey of Saint-Victor, where at the school he established with Anselm's aid he taught rhetoric, logic, and theology, again having Abelard as his pupil.
Once admitted, the student was lodged at the college, pledged to a blameless behaviour, and put upon a prescribed four-year course of grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, ethics, ancient history, Greek, and Hebrew.
Newton's initial education at Cambridge was classical, focusing (primarily through secondary sources) on Aristotlean rhetoric, logic, ethics, and physics.
The arts of the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, logic) and those of the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy) were fragments preserved against the ruinous loss of classical knowledge.
Most important are those places located in the realm of the so-called trivium (i.e., grammar, rhetoric and logic), especially in logic where already the determination of its primary subject as well as the discussion of the basic logical notions (like 'term' or 'signification') gave rise to explicit remarks on the concept of sign.
Characteristically, music was not classified with grammar, rhetoric, and logic, the "rhetorical arts" gathered in the trivium.
Philo's education, like that which he ascribes to Moses, most probably consisted of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, harmonics, philosophy, grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
After having studied the seven arts of the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, and logic) and the quadrivium (geometry, arithmetic, harmonics, and astronomy), students completed the cycle by a study of philosophy and then, having mastered this discipline, could go on to higher studies leading to such professions as medicine, law, philosophy, and theology.
2. I.e. lower level liberal arts studies, traditionally consisting of grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
