Sunday, February 07, 2021
The Ignorance of Teachers
Thomas Sowell, "Random Thoughts," Controversial Essays (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2002), pp. 301-321 (at 308):
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Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers.Plato, Alcibiades I (113c5-6; tr. W.R.M. Lamb):
For it is a mad scheme this, that you meditate, my excellent friend — of teaching things that you do not know, since you have taken no care to learn them.
μανικὸν γὰρ ἐν νῷ ἔχεις ἐπιχείρημα ἐπιχειρεῖν, ὦ βέλτιστε, διδάσκειν ἃ οὐκ οἶσθα, ἀμελήσας μανθάνειν.
