Dorothy Sayers on “The Lost Tools of Learning”

Steven Alan Samson

Dorothy Sayers on “The Lost Tools of Learning”

Steven Alan Samson

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Abstract

The key to education is “learning how to learn.” We must first stand on the shoulders of the giants who preceded us before we can reach far enough to loose their embrace. A liberal arts education is to be liberating. But as Irving Babbitt noted, commenting on Edmund Burke, the basis of genuine liberty is an act of subordination or humility. We tend to mistake the part for the whole and exalt our partial discoveries into idols.

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State	Published - Jan 1 1993
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Faculty Publications and Presentations

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