Dorothy L. Sayers Quote

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.


The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement (ed. London, Gollancz, 1963)


For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort...

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort...

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort...

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort...