Excerpts from a talk given by Dr. Jenny Small, Christian Schools Canada Conference, September 2018 In 1947, with the backdrop of a world reeling from the horrors of the second world war, the Christian author and novelist Dorothy L. Sayers gave a lecture to educators at Oxford University. In it she said: “For we let our young men and women go out unarmed, in a day when armour was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the written wo