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Learning Quotes by Albert J. Nock
- Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at…
- Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as…
- Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
- Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind…
- The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.
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