The Lost Tools of Learning

• Dorothy Sayers'"The Lost Tools of Learning" is worth reading. She laments on the lost tools of learning, mainly Grammar, Dialectic and Rhetoric. Our children are taught various subjects in schools, but not the 'art or learning' and at the end of the day unable to face modern challenges. The same thing happens in the Muslim world today. Our kids 'may know' many things, but they have'nt been taught to be a wise person. Below is an excerpt:
  
  But one cannot live on capital forever. However firmly a tradition is rooted, if it is never watered, though it dies hard, yet in the end it dies. And today a great number--perhaps the majority--of the men and women who handle our affairs, write our books and our newspapers, carry out our research, present our plays and our films, speak from our platforms and pulpits--yes, and who educate our young people--have never, even in a lingering traditional memory, undergone the Scholastic discipline. Less and less do the children who come to be educated bring any of that tradition with them. We have lost the tools of learning--the axe and the wedge, the hammer and the saw, the chisel and the plane-- that were so adaptable to all tasks. Instead of them, we have merely a set of complicated jigs, each of which will do but one task and no more, and in using which eye and hand receive no training, so that no man ever sees the work as a whole or "looks to the end of the work."