How Medieval Astronomy Illustrates the Failure of Modern Education

And how the obsession with objectivity neuters knowledge

Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland (image by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash)

Did you know astronomy was once a required field for all scholars to study? It was; alongside arithmetic, geometry and music, in what was called the quadrivium, which constituted the second half of a seven-headed liberal arts education, preceded by a trivium…