the “old days” (and by that I mean a few thousand years ago), a student’s curriculum would initially consist of three subjects, called the trivium. These three needed to be learned in their particular order, as each would build on the one prior to it. The first thing a student would be required to learn is grammar. In this discipline, students learned the proper way to understand languages (as well as other disciplines). Because there are rules to every language, it is important to understand and apply those rules in order to grasp and apply the basics of communication.
