Comments on: Goethe for the 2.0 Crowd http://www.ovenell-carter.com/2009/03/01/goethe-for-the-20-crowd/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:17:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: braddo http://www.ovenell-carter.com/2009/03/01/goethe-for-the-20-crowd/comment-page-1/#comment-78 braddo Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:39:34 +0000 http://ovenell-carter.com/blog/?p=320#comment-78 OK, ya got me. But I plead sick for a week and whacked on decongestants OK, ya got me. But I plead sick for a week and whacked on decongestants

]]> By: Richard Smith http://www.ovenell-carter.com/2009/03/01/goethe-for-the-20-crowd/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Richard Smith Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:44:49 +0000 http://ovenell-carter.com/blog/?p=320#comment-77 The first two were facetious. Sayers, serious. The first two were facetious. Sayers, serious.

]]> By: braddo http://www.ovenell-carter.com/2009/03/01/goethe-for-the-20-crowd/comment-page-1/#comment-80 braddo Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:01:04 +0000 http://ovenell-carter.com/blog/?p=320#comment-80 OK, point taken. That's not what I was thinking, But I know Sayers essay well and I do think there's something in the trivium/quadrivium as Sayers remakes it. Or in Hilda Neatby. There's a wisdom to be found in the old stuff, a wisdom that we no longer teach. See Barry Schwartz on TED: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisdom.html OK, point taken. That’s not what I was thinking,
But I know Sayers essay well and I do think there’s something in the trivium/quadrivium as Sayers remakes it. Or in Hilda Neatby.

There’s a wisdom to be found in the old stuff, a wisdom that we no longer teach. See Barry Schwartz on TED: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisdom.html

]]> By: Richard Smith http://www.ovenell-carter.com/2009/03/01/goethe-for-the-20-crowd/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Richard Smith Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:13:12 +0000 http://ovenell-carter.com/blog/?p=320#comment-79 "Spare the rod and spoil the child?" "The Three R's?" The trivium/quadrivium? http://www.gbt.org/text/sayers.html “Spare the rod and spoil the child?”

“The Three R’s?”

The trivium/quadrivium? http://www.gbt.org/text/sayers.html

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