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jinx · 01-11-2010, 07:09 PM

Humility is commendable, willful ignorance is not.
We can only know what we know today, with the understanding that tomorrow may bring information that changes what we know.
This is a common theme in the topics we discuss for home schooling. Lots of what we learn now is compared to what I learned way back when, so we can see, with this one generation, how knowledge changes over time. We are standing on the shoulders of giants, and at the same time, we become the giants.

01-11-2010, 07:09 PM	#12
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Humility is commendable, willful ignorance is not. We can only know what we know today, with the understanding that tomorrow may bring information that changes what we know. This is a common theme in the topics we discuss for home schooling. Lots of what we learn now is compared to what I learned way back when, so we can see, with this one generation, how knowledge changes over time. We are standing on the shoulders of giants, and at the same time, we become the giants. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.