The Lost Tools of Learning

What are the tools of learning? Miss Sayers went after the answer with the zest and skill of a master sleuth – and pinned her conclusions to the wall.

For three years National Reviewhas hammered away at the central weakness of American education: the lack of educational substance in the curriculum. In doing so, we have inadvertently neglected the importance of the tools of learning. Just because John Dewey and his disciples created and maintain an idolatry in the name of method, it does not follow that techniques of learning are unimportant. One must master the tools of learning – if one would learn how to learn.

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Dorothy L. Sayers

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What are the tools of learning? Miss Sayers went after the answer with the zest and skill of a master sleuth – and pinned her conclusions to the wall.

For three years National Reviewhas hammered away at the central weakness of American education: the lack of educational substance in the curriculum. In doing so, we have inadvertently neglected the importance of the tools of learning. Just because John Dewey and his disciples created and maintain an idolatry in the name of method, it does not follow that techniques of learning are unimportant. One must master the tools of learning – if one would learn how to learn.