2021 Workshop Talk | 56:37 | Academics & Curriculum, History, Philosophy
Summary
Dorothy Sayers’s use of the trivium terminology— grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric—has introduced ambiguity into the conversation around classical education. According to Sayers, we understand the trivium to mean stages of learning. But according to writers on education throughout the centuries, the trivium refers not to stages but to domains of knowledge. If we as educators seek to recover the classical view of education, how are we to understand Sayers? She can appear to contradict the very thing for which we seek. This session will explore Sayers’ vision for education—in the context of other writers on education—and find a place for her ideas in the current landscape of classical education.
Speaker
Lauren Matheny serves as the dean of academics at Saint Augustine School in Jackson, Mississippi, where she teaches Latin and directs the school’s language studies. Before moving to the upper school, she taught first grade for four years, refining the reading curriculum based on her degree in dyslexia therapy. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Christian classical studies from New Saint Andrew’s College. When she’s not teaching or studying, Lauren enjoys arranging flowers, playing spades, and singing hymns.
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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