"In any academic area or professional field, it is just as important to recognize the limits of our knowledge and understanding as it is to acquire new facts and information."
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- Data is not information, Information is not knowledge,
Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not... - In most professions and academic fields,
imagination is more important than knowledge... - Success, whether academic or professional, involves an ability to survive in a new environment and,
eventually, to change it... - Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old,
and you may become a teacher of others. --... - Faith can be defined as any man's hope that the human spirit is capable
of understanding;
that anything actually matters in the larger universe... - To remain vigorous,
any academic field needs to be led by truly independent... - Universities should require every student to take a
variety of courses outside the student's field of study... - Information is heresay,
knowledge is an... - In any field of inquiry,
the beginner is more likely than the expert to make...
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- As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible,
but more complex and more mysterious... - The university community consists of three different worlds.the sciences,
the humanities, and the social sciences. Because each... - Education should be equally devoted to enriching the
personal lives of students and to training students... - Anyone can make things bigger and more complex. What requires real effort and courage is to move in the opposite direction.in other words,
to make things as simple as possible... - It is often asserted that the purpose of education is to free the mind and the spirit.
In reality, however, formal education tends to restrain...
