Learning Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 21
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of enquiry, from philosophy.
John Berger
In the outskirts of Dubuque, on the farm, when I was growing up – back there, back then – I learned, with all the pigs and chickens and the endless sameness everywhere you looked, or thought, back there I learned – though I doubt I knew I was learning it – that all the values were relative save one…”Who am I?” All the rest is semantics – liberty, dignity, possession. There’s only one that matters: “Who am I?”
Elizabeth
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young
Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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