- Nov 07, 2020
Erudition Quotes on Learning and Intellectual Life
Knowledge, well earned
One quote reflects on intellectuals speaking down to their rural Brethren, forgetting the labor that supports their own comfort.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can see the professionals and intellectuals talking to their rural brethren with an amused and condescending smile. They forget that but for the toiling rural masses, all their professional training and erudition would collapse like a castle of cards.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries.
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
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- Nov 07, 2020