SS #54: Gainsaying Sayers
In today’s episode, Mystie, Pam, and Brandy finish up their conversation about Dorothy Sayers’ essay, The Lost Tools of Learning, which began in Episode 49. In fact, if you haven’t listened to Episode 49, you really should do that first. Anyhow, in this episode the Scholé Sisters discuss and debate the trivium portion of the essay. It’s great fun you won’t want to miss.

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Show Notes:
Scholé Everyday:
- Pam
- Mystie
Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Brandy
- Theology books
- 2018 Retreat: Learning Well with Cindy Rollins
Topical Discussion:
- Pam’s post-GHC coma: GHC = Great Homeschool Conventions
- The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers
- The arts of the Trivium—grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric—are the tools of language
- The arts of the quadrivium—arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music—are the tools of mathematics
- Who is Susan Wise Bauer?
- Who is Doug Wilson?
- Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS)
The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
- Logos School
Cassiodorus: “Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning” and “On the Soul” by Cassiodorus
The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being by Richard Gamble
- Who is Piaget?
- SS #49: The Sisters on Sayers — Not the Podcast You Expected
- Who was Aristotle?
- Who was Plato?
Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning by Robert Littlejohn and Charles T. Evans
Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education by David Hicks
Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education by Stratford Caldecott
Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid box set by Homer
- Blog post: How the Arts Were Liberated by Adam Lockridge (Afterthoughts)
The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education by Ravi Jain and Kevin Clark
- Paideia
- Telos: A telos is an end or purpose, in a fairly constrained sense used by philosophers such as Aristotle
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