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First-hand knowledge is the ultimate basis of intellectual life. To a large extent, book-learning conveys second-hand information, and as such can never rise to the importance of immediate practice.... What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity. It is tame because it has never been scared by facts.

Alfred North Whitehead
The Aims of Education and Other Essays

They say what we know
Is just what they teach us;
And we're so ignorant
'Cause every time they can reach us
Through political strategy
They ke

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