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Dorothy Sayers

Book Club: Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker{Chapter 2}

This post is a week overdue. In addition to Math Week, I also had the stomach flu last week. As proof of my good fortune, three of my children have come down with the chicken pox in the last 24 hours. I considered skipping this chapter, but decided I’d rather be behind than skipping an integral part of the conversation. After all, I don’t really know what I think until I’ve written it down. Ahem. This whole chapter is really Continue Reading…
November 14, 2012
Book Club: Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker{Chapter 1}

I must admit at the outset that I haven’t read much Sayers and so I spent much of this initial reading {I read the preface, also} adjusting to her writing style. I like it, for what it’s worth. Cindy called her the “undercover Chesterton” and I can’t say I disagree. Sayers wrote this over seventy years ago, and yet her points are still applicable {a sure sign of a good book}. In this chapter, she discusses our two definitions of the Continue Reading…
October 30, 2012
Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
Is Charlotte Mason Classical? {A Follow-up}

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e’ve had some good discussion on the first post and Mystie also posted a link to a free talk by Doug Wilson that explains a little more of the history behind the use of Dorothy Sayers’ application of the Trivium to the stages of child development in actual classrooms. He references, coincidentally, Comenius, so it seems we are all talking about the same thing. I think Wilson makes a number of important points worth considering, and if you have time Continue Reading…
April 19, 2012
Educational Philosophy
Classical Education: Is Dorothy Sayers the Only Way?

I have received a couple emails lately {to which I haven’t had time to respond individually, so sorry!} about the relationship between Charlotte Mason and Classical Education. One of them specifically referenced “combining” the two approaches, as if Charlotte Mason were one thing, and Classical Education another. After all of my reading and thinking, I have concluded that Charlotte Mason is quite different from what I often call neoclassicism, which is the modern approach a la Dorothy Sayers essay, but as Continue Reading…
April 17, 2012