It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Education made us what we are

For various reasons, education is being driven towards an increasing concentration on the technical and the commercial, to a point at which any more reflective enquiry may come to seem unnecessary and archaic, something that at best is preserved as part of the heritage industry.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning

We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.