Cassiodorus
He was a Christian scholar who was extremely well known. He lived from c. 490 to 585. He grew up in a rich family and later served the historic Ostrogothic king Theodoric. Once Theodoric died everything turned to chaos and Cassiodorus didn't like it, so he withdrew from society and wrote his last book Divine and Human Readings. Cassiodorus believed, like other Christian scholars before him, that the pagan writings could be used to educate a person about worldly things, but that the Bible should be help in a place of upmost importance.
Cassiodorus was one of many who classified knowledge based on the subject it partained to, and he very much kept that tradition alive. He believed that all secular knowledge could be catagorized into the seven liberal arts. The liberal arts were subsequently divided into two smaller groups, the trivium, which included grammar, rhetoric and dialectic/logic, and the quadrivium, which included arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. The seven liberal arts are what the modern Western education system was founded on, and has been founded on for about 1,200 years.
Cassiodorus was one of many who classified knowledge based on the subject it partained to, and he very much kept that tradition alive. He believed that all secular knowledge could be catagorized into the seven liberal arts. The liberal arts were subsequently divided into two smaller groups, the trivium, which included grammar, rhetoric and dialectic/logic, and the quadrivium, which included arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. The seven liberal arts are what the modern Western education system was founded on, and has been founded on for about 1,200 years.
Bede
Called the Venerable Bede (c. 672-735). He grew up in the monastery in Jarrow and was am Anglo-Saxon England scholar. His most famous work was completed in 731. It outlined the 8th century English exxlesiastical and monastic culture, and it also outlined the history of England as seen after the arrival of Christianity on the mainland. Bede was possibly the greatest example of 8th century English intelligence, as his book was an astonishing accomplishment for a monk of a small monastery in a far corner of England.