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Saturday, November 26, 2022

Purpose of education

"nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life — save only this — that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education." John Alexander Smith
Posted by james at 9:19 AM
Labels: Education

2 comments:

Assistant Village Idiot said...

That is an excellent sentiment.

9:28 AM
Korora said...

The goal of modern education seems to be to produce in the student a high likelihood of false positives and false negatives.

5:02 PM

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