The greatest influence comes from the invention of the mechanical clock. Everything done today is based on the time of a clock. Whether it's school or work, there is a certain time when people need to be present and when they leave. One might assume that today it is the clock that dictates daily life, but this would never have happened if they had never been created. The next influence is the education system that exists today. During the Middle Ages the seven liberal arts were taught in universities. In the article “The History of Education”, written by Robert Guisepi, it was stated that there were two main groups of how the arts were taught and that the preparatory trivium (grammar, rhetoric and logic) was taught first, then the quadrivium ( arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy) were taught second (Guisepi). This has a direct influence on today's education system because elementary school students are taught to read and write before learning subjects such as mathematics, history and music. There is still the same structure on the teaching of the subjects, the preparatory is taught before the crossroads. Before today's students learn to do math and begin learning history, they must demonstrate that they have learned to write and read basic sentences. There are still other influences that the Middle Ages have today, but these two are the two main ones