Sunday, February 7, 2021

Learning

 A brilliant pairing from Laudator Temporis Acti

For it is a mad scheme this, that you meditate, my excellent friend — of teaching things that you do not know, since you have taken no care to learn them.

Plato, Alcibiades

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers.

Thomas Sowell, "Random Thoughts," Controversial Essays (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2002)

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