Could not have provided a better opening statement – thanks @Niklas Göke
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“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” — Bruce Lee
In the past four years, I have asked a lot of foolish questions:
Can I be a professional translator without any credentials?
If I want to be a published writer, should I still ghostwrite for money?
Do summaries of existing book summaries make any sense?
The seemingly obvious answer to them all is “no,” yet I did all those things anyway. And while some led nowhere, others now pay my bills. Often, the only way to get satisfying answers is to try, especially with foolish questions. The beauty of daring to ask them, rather than accepting the answers society gives you, is that you’ll have many more unexpected insights along the way.
Like that, today, the answers are always less valuable than the questions.”
In 2013 all our data was equal to all previous historical data. Period. And it doubles each year. So school and tertiary hours increase to try and cope but do not achieve the goal.
Knowledge is cumulative. Intelligence is selective. It’s a matter of efficiency versus effectiveness…..the last thing a teacher needs to give her pupils is more information. They already have far too much of it. Instead, people need the ability to make sense of information, to tell the difference between what is important and what is unimportant, and above all, to combine many bits of information into a broad picture of the world.