In the 1940s, the British author Dorothy Sayers wrote an essay entitled “The Lost Tools of Learning.” In it she calls for a return to the application of the seven liberal arts of ancient education, the first three being the “Trivium” – grammar, logic, rhetoric. Miss Sayers also compares the three stages of children’s development to the Trivium. Specifically, she matches what she calls the “Poll-parrot” stage with grammar, “Pert” with logic, and “Poetic” with rhetoric (see chart below). Especially in the Rhetoric school, classical education includes reading and discussing works which have had significant influence in our culture; this is sometimes referred to as the study of “Great Books.” At Covenant, the founding board members were intrigued with this idea of applying a classical education in a Christian context. Doug Wilson, a founding board member of Logos School, explained the classical method further in his book, Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning. Covenant Classical Christian School is committed to implementing this form of education.