Receiving information through the senses, orienting to the information, and building a database of the information.

• Welcome back to the OODA loop again

Angel as a term from "angle" when trigonometry was being tested against the positions of stars.

The trivium is the essense of a classical education.

Liberal used to mean "to free [from ignorance]"

A subject: the embodiment of knowledge, after the grammar-logic-rhetoric cycle.

Logic is the systemic resolution/removal of conflict and inconsistencies.

The rules of applying the trivium are the same when applied to any topic.

[..] in half the time, and expend a quarter of the effort.

An educated man could consider anything at any time without embracing it (Aristotle reference.)

Education taken away over time; putting the mind a box to keep it running around in the box forever.

Hegelian dialectic; problem-reaction-solution.

You have to be on both sides to employ the hegelian dialectic.

If only one lawyer moves in to town he'd starve; if a second, they'll get rich.

The Enemy always has a catch-all category: terrorist, traitor, witches.

Argument to Authority: an argument is not true because an authority said it; but because it is itself correct.

Argumentum ad Adhominem: an argument attacking the person and not the argument.

Appeal to Ignorance: absense of evidence is not evidence.

Sister Miriam Joseph's book on the Trivium was recommended because general grammar and logic sections are good, even though each module is not tied together as a unified system.

Speed reading

Avoid subvocalizing words while reading them.

"Left, center, right," then "Left, right," then one line at a time.