"What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity."
— Rote learning

January 1, 1970

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Alfred North Whitehead, “Technical Education,” The Aims of Education and Other Essays (1929), p. 61