Thursday, September 27, 2012

"The smaller our faith in doctrine, the larger is our faith in doctors."

It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to children. The smaller our faith in doctrine, the larger is our faith in doctors.

-January 26, 1907, Illustrated London News
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2 comments:

  1. coffeepotcurveSeptember 27, 2012 at 6:52 PM

    I guess I had not thought about it but yeah that is often the case.Or at least it seems to be.

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  2. MikeSeptember 28, 2012 at 5:34 AM

    Yes. Modern thought is full of such contradictions, it seems...

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