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Date: 2015-10-07; view: 466.


1. Opinion Exchange

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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