Intermittent lucubrations on education, work, culture, morality and other interesting stuff
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Dumbing down - a complaint from 1621
'Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base and illiterate scribblers that either write from vainglory, need, to get money, or as parasites to flatter and collogue with some great men.'
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Nothing new there then...
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