Wednesday, May 21, 2008

2 Misc. Insights from Adler's "How to Read a Book"

While reading Mortimer Adler's classic work "How to Read a Book," which treats a topic that might be more appropriately named something like "How to Properly Assimilate and Analyze Information as a Human Being," I came across a multiplicity of insights, two of which I happened to jot down on a sticky note. This morning, while cleaning out my sticky notes, I came across these two insights and decided to post them here.

• "There are no stupid questions" gives way somewhere during the course of one's education to the question "what are the right questions?"

• Higher Education is often more about unlearning than learning.

1 comment:

  1. You have inspired me to keep post-it notes on hand when I read.

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