Who Was Dorothy Sayers—and How She Shaped Classical Education
- Andy McIlvain

- Jul 5
- 1 min read
Video from Memoria Press
Who Was Dorothy Sayers—and How She Shaped Classical Education
"Dorothy Sayers' "Lost Tools of Learning" sparked a revolution in classical education—but does it define classical education? In this Speakers' Guild, Martin Cothran examines Sayers' famous trivium: where it came from, what it actually argues, and why classical educators may be leaning on it too heavily. Sayers gave the modern classical movement a method. But classical education has always been about something more—the formation of wisdom and virtue through the Great Books and the liberal arts. A method is a means. It was never meant to be the end.
Read Cothran's original article here: https://www.memoriapress.com/articles..." from the video introduction

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