[HPforGrownups] Re: Lack of traditional academics...

[Andrew MacIan]

No: HPFGUIDX 33876

Greetings from Andrew!

A passing but obligatory maths note....

--- joanne0012 <Joanne0012 at aol.com> wrote:
{snip}
> 
> Having sealed itself off as much as possible from
> the muggle world since the late 
> 1600s, the wizarding world offers a curriculum
> typical of that time, offering 
> mostly a trade orientation.  Even royalty and elites
> of that era were educated 
> mostly in foreign languages and philosophy.

Sidebar: Which is the Quadrivium,and which the
Trivium?

>  Just as
> alchemy offers an early 
> version of our modern chemistry studies, the
> Hogwarts courses in herbology and 
> magical creatures serve as ancestral biology
> courses, arithmancy and 
> astrological charts teach maths (including trig) and
> so on.
One of, if not THE reason calculus was developed was
to assist in the study of planetary/Lunar motion. 
Similarly, physics got a start from the study of both
engineering and weapons/armor design.

That being true in period history, I would offer that
the same evolution(s) would have had some impact on
the 'wizarding' (what a solecism, IMO) world.  That
there  is no form of university education in Rowling's
universe makes no sense to me; I wonder if this a
means of sealing off the series after Hogwarts.

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