Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education by Douglas Wilson
 
 
Summary:
The title of the book comes from a Dorothy Sayers essay entitled “The Lost Tools of Learning”, published in 1947. Sayers wrote about the “classical” style of education and compared this against the “modern” style of teaching in this way. Rather than simply learning facts and charts, classically-trained students learn how to learn. The book is divided into four sections. The first, called “The Failure of Modern Secular Education”,  “An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education”, “An Approach to Distinctively Classical Education”, “Conclusions” and Appendices.

Wilson’s philosophy takes this a step further, using the biblical mandate for parents to teach their children as a foundation, and building upon that foundation using the classical “Trivium”, a system of teaching consisting of three stages: Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric. The result is what he calls “Classical Christian Education”.