“ the nice people whom you delight in either never knew any at all or forgot what they had learned as soon as they could ”
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903). copy citation
Author | Samuel Butler |
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Source | The Way of All Flesh |
Topic | learning forgetting |
Date | 1903 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2084/2084-h/2084-h.htm |
Context
“it requires attention, and you are not strong enough to attend to your bodily growth, and to your lessons too. Besides, Latin and Greek are great humbug; the more people know of them the more odious they generally are; the nice people whom you delight in either never knew any at all or forgot what they had learned as soon as they could; they never turned to the classics after they were no longer forced to read them; therefore they are nonsense, all very well in their own time and country, but out of place here. Never learn anything until you find you have been made uncomfortable for a good long while by not knowing it;”
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