Albert J. NockA collection of 12 posts

Nature

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature a soul why should it be thou...

Learning

Diligent as one must be in learning one must be as diligent in forgetting other...

Learning

Concerning culture as a process one would say that it means learning a great ma...

Learning

Learning has always been made much of but forgetting has always been deprecated...

Knowledge

Considered now as a possession one may define culture as the residuum of a larg...

Knowledge

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disi...

Knowledge

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge an...

Knowledge

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common er...

Knowledge

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what...

Knowledge

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not o...