On the Ignorance of the Learned.

Hazlitt, William

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ERIC Number: EJ266437

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Publication Date: 1982

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On the Ignorance of the Learned.

Hazlitt, William

Interchange on Educational Policy, v13 n2 p68-73 1982

In this essay, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) deplores the effects of the classical education of his time on students who memorized without understanding and on teachers who tended toward pedantry. Interchange editors noted that "many of his criticisms of scholars and schooling have a contemporary ring...." (PP)

Descriptors: Academic Education, Foundations of Education, Higher Education, Humanistic Education, Memorization, Neoclassicism, Outcomes of Education, Relevance (Education), Rote Learning, Student Characteristics, Teacher Characteristics

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