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    The Lost Tools of Learning: Symposium on Education
    The Lost Tools of Learning: Symposium on Education
    The Lost Tools of Learning: Symposium on Education
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    The Lost Tools of Learning: Symposium on Education

    By Dorothy L. Sayers

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    That I, whose experience of teaching is extremely limited, should presume to discuss education is a matter, surely, that calls for no apology. It is a kind of behavior to which the present climate of opinion is wholly favorable. Bishops air their opinions about economics; biologists, about metaphysics; inorganic chemists, about theology; the most irrelevant people are appointed to highly technical ministries; and plain, blunt men write to the papers to say that Epstein and Picasso do not know how to draw. Up to a certain point, and provided that the criticisms are made with a reasonable modesty, these activities are commendable. Too much specialization is not a good thing. There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learnt nothing, perhaps in particular if we learnt nothing, our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossReach Publications
    Release dateMay 23, 2018
    ISBN9788828327585
    The Lost Tools of Learning: Symposium on Education
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    Dorothy L. Sayers

    Dorothy L. Sayers, the greatest of the golden age detective novelists, was born in Oxford in 1893. Her aristocratic detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, became one of the most popular fictional heroes of the twentieth century. She devoted the last 20 years of her life to playwriting, Christian scholarship, and a new translation of Dante. She died in 1957.

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      The Lost Tools of Learning - Dorothy L. Sayers

      The Lost Tools of Learning

      Symposium on Education

      by

      Dorothy L. Sayers

      © 2017 CrossReach Publications,

      Waterford, Ireland

      Copyright, A. Watkins, 1947, for the estate of Dorothy Sayers.

      Originally published in The Hibbert Journal.

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      Contents

      THE LOST TOOLS OF LEARNING

      Disquieting Questions

      The Art of Learning

      The Medieval Syllabus

      Angels on a Needle

      Unarmed

      The Three Ages

      The Use of Memory

      The Mistress Science

      Relation to Dialectic

      The World Around Us

      Pert Age-Criticism

      The Imagination

      The Study of Rhetoric

      The University at Sixteen?

      Educational Capital Depleted

      Forgotten Roots

      The Lost Tools of Learning

      Symposium on Education

      That I, whose experience of teaching is extremely limited, should presume to discuss education is a matter, surely, that calls for no apology. It is a kind of behavior to which the present climate of opinion is wholly favorable. Bishops air their opinions about economics; biologists, about metaphysics; inorganic chemists, about theology; the most irrelevant people are appointed to highly technical ministries; and plain, blunt men write to the papers to say that Epstein and Picasso do not know how to draw. Up to a certain point, and provided that the criticisms are made with a reasonable modesty, these activities are commendable. Too much specialization is not a good thing. There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learnt nothing, perhaps in particular if we learnt nothing, our contribution to the discussion may have a

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