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Did Dorothy Sayers Get Education Wrong?


Dorothy Sayers Was Wrong: The Trivium and Child Development

Sayers was right when she identified domain specialization as a problem in modern education. She took the wrong turn, however, when she ...

Did Dorothy Sayers Get Education Wrong? - YouTube

Has the contemporary classical education movement been heading in the wrong direction since Dorothy's statements in 1947?

CLAA – "Against Dorothy Sayers (2009)"

The ideas of Sayers have nothing to do with classical education as a careful reading of her essay proves. Dorothy Sayers may have some ideas ...

Against the Dorothy Sayers Movement | Trivium Pursuit

Essentially, he says Sayers was no better for education than John Dewey as she was a progressive and would have wanted to distort education, rather than truly ...

Dorothy Sayers on Classical Education

Sayers made no claims of being an expert on education and certainly not a prophet. It is also true that her famous essay was somewhat of an ...

Sayers & Classical Christian Education | The Puritan Board

Dorothy Sayers' Lost Tools of Learning speech/article set forth a ... I don't believe they have understood Sayers's intention, which was ...

The Lost Tools of Learning

Dorothy Sayers first delivered this speech at Oxford University in 1947. ... was wrong; for it was they whom he had to seek to persuade. At ...

Dorothy Sayers is Wrong - YouTube

The historically dishonest "classical education" movement based on a lecture by Dorothy Sayers has attracted thousands of ignorant Catholic ...

Classical Education: Is Dorothy Sayers the Only Way? - Afterthoughts

So important to get a full understanding of another's meaning so as to not get the wrong end of the stick. As to Doug Wilson and Sayers, I was ...

Dorothy Sayers Was Wrong About the Art of Grammar

With a passion for classical Christian education, he wants to help teachers and parents alike catch a vision for a tradition-resourced approach ...

Dorothy Sayers: Reluctant Public Intellectual

She didn't want to teach at Oxford, fond as she was of the place; she didn't enjoy teaching at all, in fact. She tried teaching at a girls' ...

A brief summary of concerns about Dorothy Sayers' view

Her true love was modern language, in particular French, and she benefitted from a live-in French teacher. Her education in other subjects was lacking, and she ...

Dorothy Sayers and Classical Education - DarwinCatholic

Born in 1893, the daughter of a Church of England clergyman, Sayers first educated at home by her father (who started her on Latin at the age of ...

Dorothy Sayers on Latin teaching methods - Reddit

my Latin education ended upon this note. ... And this was a thing that never ought to have happened to me, because I was born with the gift of ...

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Dorothy L. Sayers's surprising legacy | Christian History Magazine

Sayers gave a talk at Oxford University titled “The Lost Tools of Learning.” She argued in that talk that the educational system was failing at what should be ...

Dorothy Sayers and Charlotte Mason: A Fork in the River of ...

Sayer's essay suggests a bold idea: Education should return to its classical roots in order to reverse an error – except, of course, that the ...

Dorothy L. Sayers - Wikipedia

Born in Oxford, Sayers was brought up in rural East Anglia and educated at Godolphin School in Salisbury and Somerville College, Oxford, graduating with first ...

The Greatest Single Defect Of My Own Latin Education

Dorothy Sayers began her Latin Education when she heard the words: "I ... did my Latin education, starting so well as it did, go wrong?

Dorothy Sayers: It's no mystery that her world was shaped by a ...

Sayers is also known for a 1947 Oxford presentation – "The Lost Tools of Learning" – that has influenced generations of Classical education ...


The Moonstone

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The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Collins is an 1868 British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre.