"You could never teach other people anything that……" — Kim Stanley Robinson
"You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson."
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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31 Quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson
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One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
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It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
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That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
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