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Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be acco

Genuine ignorance is… profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. – John Dewey

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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. – John Dewey

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A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline. – John Dewey

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Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us. – Christopher Andrea

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A little learning is dangerous, but downright ignorance is even more disastrous. – Author unknown, from The Galveston Daily News, 1894 June 10th

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