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 I
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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