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A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing: Six Hundred Wise and Witty Observations for Students...
Gathers quotations about education, learning, teaching, and the scholarly life
116 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 1994
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June 19, 2022
I would neither recommend nor would I discourage others from reading this, though it's more like 2.5 rather than 3 stars.
For entertainment value, it's okay I suppose. It depends on if you have time on your hands that you want to waste, or want to see the dumb things some people said. Maybe they were joking?!
There's a lot of misinformation being spewed in many of those quotes. I get they are quotes, but why give the bandwidth to the idiots who have made the quote?
Some quotes make you double back and say: "wait, did they really say that?!!" Others make you double back and say, "hey, that makes sense!" and yet others are just okay nothing memorable and why are the here taking up space in my head?
Overall in today's digital availability where you can do an internet search in seconds on quotes and be inundated with too many to get through in a sitting, the book is generally outdated, but then the receipt I left inside from when I purchased it, is from Waldenbooks, a franchise that went out of business so long ago, this generation doesn't even know it ever existed. Date of the receipt for a fun fact is 21 April 1995, and I JUST now read this book. Yeah, too many books on the shelf, time to start reading and stop buying, haha.
For entertainment value, it's okay I suppose. It depends on if you have time on your hands that you want to waste, or want to see the dumb things some people said. Maybe they were joking?!
There's a lot of misinformation being spewed in many of those quotes. I get they are quotes, but why give the bandwidth to the idiots who have made the quote?
Some quotes make you double back and say: "wait, did they really say that?!!" Others make you double back and say, "hey, that makes sense!" and yet others are just okay nothing memorable and why are the here taking up space in my head?
Overall in today's digital availability where you can do an internet search in seconds on quotes and be inundated with too many to get through in a sitting, the book is generally outdated, but then the receipt I left inside from when I purchased it, is from Waldenbooks, a franchise that went out of business so long ago, this generation doesn't even know it ever existed. Date of the receipt for a fun fact is 21 April 1995, and I JUST now read this book. Yeah, too many books on the shelf, time to start reading and stop buying, haha.
November 18, 2016
Here's an enjoyable little book of brief quotations with attributions but not citations. The theme, in keeping with its title, is learning and the learning environment. Caveat: it's for a popular audience so some of the attributions reflect folk knowledge instead of scholarship. e.g. The quotation about university politics being attributed yet again to Henry Kissinger. There's an index but it's of the cursory sort: it's indexed by names only, not by topic or anything else useful.
I wouldn't pursue this but if you were to find it at a yard sale or on a remainders table for a buck, why not? You'll browse through it and then it can be a stocking stuffer come December.
I wouldn't pursue this but if you were to find it at a yard sale or on a remainders table for a buck, why not? You'll browse through it and then it can be a stocking stuffer come December.
May 9, 2013
A number of really great quotes.
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