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imported>Pat Palmer (adding Thoreau (quote 48), or at least, trying to) |
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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br /> | |01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | ||
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|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the [[future]].'''<br /> | |47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the [[future]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]]<br /> | ||
|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br /> | |||
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—<small>''[http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=CZ:Quote&action=edit add a quote about knowledge or writing]''</small> | —<small>''[http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=CZ:Quote&action=edit add a quote about knowledge or writing]''</small> | ||
Revision as of 20:13, 6 June 2011
The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of information but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.
— MASIS report of the European Commission
—add a quote about knowledge or writing