The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Her faculty for hitting the right nail on the head is almost miraculous – especially as all her blows have the air… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I assure your lordship that for the first time in my existence I regret that I have made no practical study of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Is not the great defect of our education today—a defect traceable through all the disquieting symptoms of trouble that I have mentioned—that… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“At twenty years of age, the old-fashioned schooling turned me out helpless, ignorant and dissatisfied. Forty years later I encounter the product… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite Parker's admonitions, he was not… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable mass of undigested problems… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
“ Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?" "No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck."… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
“By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
“That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood had changed since the early… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
“To obey orders in this family has been my privilege for the last twenty years--a privilege which has been an unqualified pleasure, except perhaps… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
“Yes, and look at the corpses. Place always reminds me of that old thing in Punch, you know—‘Waiter, take away Lord Whatsisname, he’s been… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share
