ABSTRACT
Whenever people join together in any form of education some notion of curriculum exists. How explicit that is depends on the formality of the setting and the influence of history and tradition. We have very detailed records of what was taught in the schools of ancient Egypt, classical Greece and Imperial Rome. In the Middle Ages the education of the elite, almost wholly in the hands of the church, was created around a curriculum that had a direct lineage to the times of Plato and Aristotle. The curriculum today reflects elements of the monastic curriculum of the quadrium – music, astronomy, geometry and arithmetic, and the trivium – grammar, rhetoric, philosophy as logic.
