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  • The Lost Tools of Learning

  • Symposium on Education
  • By: Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Narrated by: Tiffany Rudd
  • Length: 49 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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The Lost Tools of Learning

By: Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrated by: Tiffany Rudd
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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.

I propose to deal with the subject of teaching, properly so-called. It is in the highest degree improbable that the reforms I propose will ever be carried into effect. Neither the parents, nor the training colleges, nor the examination boards, nor the boards of governors, nor the ministers of education would countenance them for a moment.

For they amount to this: That if we are to produce a society of educated people, fitted to preserve their intellectual freedom amid the complex pressures of our modern society, we must turn back the wheel of progress some 400 or 500 years, to the point at which education began to lose sight of its true object, toward the end of the Middle Ages.

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Hidden knowledge we should know

A wonderful book with incredible insights about learning. I loved it! Everyone connected with teaching and learning should listen to this.

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True logic, reason, & order applied to looking at a child’s education.

To look back is the means by which we gain the wisdom of the ages. The only practical wisdom which serves the future.
Thankful for Dorothy Sayers.

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I like Sayers

This would have been better read by someone who could properly pronounce words, and who didn’t sound like an automaton.

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Good talking points!

The speaker was a bit unnatural…but did well! I understood what she was getting at.

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