Classically structured Secular Homeschooling

Summarise Dorothy Sayers’s diagnosis that education teaches subjects without adequately teaching the intellectual tools needed to learn and judge unfamiliar subjects.

Distinguish the historical seven liberal arts as a curriculum of preparatory arts from Sayers’s twentieth-century developmental proposal.

Evaluate Sayers’s claims about age-linked stages and transferable intellectual tools without treating them as settled developmental science.

Compare Sayers’s successive stages with a spiral model in which knowledge, reasoning, and expression develop together but receive different emphases over time.

Create a dated map of current UK home-education networks, tutoring services, online providers, and subject-enrichment organisations.

Map routes into rich mathematics through NRICH, UKMT competitions and follow-on programmes, mathematics circles, Olympiads, university outreach, and summer programmes.