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August 9, 2019

Dorothy Sayers Was Wrong: The Trivium and Child Development

Myth: The trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) corresponds to stages in child development. The origin of this fantastic claim, a nearly ubiquitous presupposition of classical education literature and the central organizing tenet of many a school’s curriculum, can be traced back to Dorothy Sayers’ essay, “The Lost Tools of Learning.” So foundational (dare I say […]

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Getting Practical: What To Do With Lazy Fridays

Around ten years ago, David Bentley Hart maintained a column at First Things wherein every Friday, he wrote about some issue which had little to do with his more well-known interests (patristics, philosophy) and more or less constituted a diversion, a flight of fancy, wherein some relatively trivial or mundane matter was discussed with a

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