Quote by Albert Jay Nock on Learning, Forgetting, and Pedantry

„Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.“

Albert Jay NockAlbert Jay Nock criticizes the overemphasis on pedantry and the imbalance between learning and forgetting in the modern world.
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Albert Jay Nock was an American libertarian author, editor, educational theorist, Georgist, and social critic.

This quote addresses the imbalance between learning and forgetting and criticizes the emphasis on pedantry at the expense of cultural development.


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Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) was a prominent American writer and social critic known for his libertarian views and critique of the state. He was also an editor and educational theorist and supported the economic philosophy of Georgism.

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"Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too." Albert Jay Nock
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