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Patricia · 08-29-2008, 09:25 AM

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)
The Lost Tools of Learning
Paper read at a Vacation Course in Education, Oxford 1947. First published in 1948.

A lecture, in which Miss Sayers argues for a return to the mediaeval system of education. Currently, children are taught ‘subjects’ and learn a lot of facts by rote. However, they are not taught how to think. A return to the Trivium—the ‘three ways’—rhetoric, dialectic and grammar—would remedy this defect.

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Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Sayers, Dorothy L: The Lost Tools of Learning, v.1, 29 August 2008. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) The Lost Tools of Learning Paper read at a Vacation Course in Education, Oxford 1947. First published in 1948. A lecture, in which Miss Sayers argues for a return to the mediaeval system of education. Currently, children are taught ‘subjects’ and learn a lot of facts by rote. However, they are not taught how to think. A return to the Trivium—the ‘three ways’—rhetoric, dialectic and grammar—would remedy this defect.