February 2, 767: Alcuin, the academic who would later play a large role in establishing schools under Charlemagne, becomes headmaster of York Cathedral School, where he once studied. Alcuin’s curriculum was built on the seven liberal arts: the elementary Trivium (grammar, dialect, and rhetoric,) and the more advanced Quadrivium (music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy).![](https://candiescreekacademy.com/cca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_9776.jpeg)
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