Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Image
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 Image
“ 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
![“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c74/dorothy-l-sayers-738_academia_see-that-the-mind-is-honest-first-the-re_16293.jpg)
![“Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/467/dorothy-l-sayers-738_buried_perhaps-the-critics-are-right-and-the-dr_43252.jpg)
