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The Lost Tools Of Learning (1947)

by Dorothy L. Sayers(Favorite Author)

4.38 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Old Landmark Publishing

review 1: A thoughtful book on our education system and how we might benefit from reinstating a more medieval learning model. This book is very concise and well-written; I feel like I need to read it again more slowly and spend some time considering her ideas. Recommend for those concerned with our education system and especially those who have decided to be an active part of their children's education.
review 2: Excellent essay on the reasons for and necessity of a classical education. If you truly want to be a leader, you have to give yourself a classical education. From the introduction:"Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy throughout Western Europe is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susce... moreptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined? Do you put this down to the mere mechanical fact that the press and the radio and so on have made propaganda much easier to distribute over a wide area? Or do you sometimes have an uneasy suspicion that the product of modern educational methods is less good than he or she might be at disentangling fact from opinion and the proven from the plausible? Have you ever, in listening to a debate among adult and presumably responsible people, been fretted by the extraordinary inability of the average debater to speak to the question, or to meet and refute the arguments of speakers on the other side? Or have you ever pondered upon the extremely high incidence of irrelevant matter which crops up at committee meetings, and upon the very great rarity of persons capable of acting as chairmen of committees? And when you think of this, and think that most of our public affairs are settled by debates and committees, have you ever felt a certain sinking of the heart?" less

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