Baker Street Elementary – It Never Ends

by I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere December 07, 2025

“I gave him the best of educations.” [PRIO]

In my professional life, I coach leaders and write a newsletter on leadership and character, ending every missive with the phrase “There's so much to learn.” As the philosophers will tell you, we don't know what we don't know, and those who are curious and life-long learners make the best leaders.

And although Sherlock Holmes could easily forget more than any of his contemporaries from Scotland Yard might ever know, he kept educating himself.

In "The Adventure of the Red Circle," Watson questions why Holmes would take on the case of Mrs. Warren and her strange lodger:

“Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it?”
“What, indeed? It is art for art’s sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored you found yourself
studying cases without thought of a fee?”
“For my education, Holmes.”
“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.

And that last line, as simple as it is, is also one of the most profound in the Canon. Those who are curious and of the disposition to keep learning throughout life will continue to gain knowledge until the very end, only to learn the mystery of what awaits us in the great beyond.

Does this mean Sherlock Holmes believed in the afterlife? Perhaps. We certainly know his creator did. But perhaps for Holmes it will simply mean finding the solution to the greatest mystery of all — the mystery of life.

Over on Trifles we talked about the boarding schools in Episode 127 - School's Out:

Now let's see what the boys are learning as Baker Street Elementary enters its 12th year...

Baker Street Elementary follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and , as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in . An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at the Baker Street Elementary website.