Thursday, June 24, 2010

Intellectual shallowness...


Another excess of modern life-- and one not unrelated to well-intentioned, naive multi-culturalism-- is intellectual shallowness. This vice besets all of us. Never have so many people earned so many academic degrees and known so little. Yet never have so many thought they knew so much...
~T. L. Simmons, Climbing parnassus, p.231

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