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Dorothy L. Sayers
Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, and Krakatoa, all of which were New York Times bestsellers and appeared on numerous best and notable lists. In 2006, Winchester was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen. He resides in western Massachusetts.
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The Lost Tools of Learning - Dorothy L. Sayers
The Lost Tools of Learning
Symposium on Education
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Dorothy L. Sayers
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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