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SPEAKINGDate: 2015-10-07; view: 466.
Comment on the following quotations. q …knowledge itself is power. Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, lawyer, statesman q A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet and satirist. q Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T.S.Eliot (1888-1965), American-English poet, playwright, literary critic and editor q Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an east prey to sensations and cheap appeals. G.M.Trevelyan (1876-1962), English historian
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