February 11, 2009

The Lost Tools of Writing, being a modern version of classical rhetoric and an application of the “Organon” (tool – these are the “lost tools” Dorothy Sayers was writing about) of Aristotle, is the foundation of everything you will study with the possible exception of mathematics. It is the trivium. LTW is, by far, the […]

I was over at Mystie’s amazing blog, where I came across this quotation under a link to our earlier post about education for slavery. Tests are for slaves; an alternative would be the medieval (and Charlotte Mason) practice of examinations. Then I tried to find a way in Mystie’s blog to contact her because this