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|53 = '''The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge; secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.'''<br />
|53 = '''The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge; secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Locke]]''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Locke]]''<br />
|54 = '''[the reader] must write the text as much as possible in order to avoid being written by the text's ideology.'''
|54 = '''[The reader] must write the text as much as possible in order to avoid being written by the text's ideology.'''
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br />
|55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br />
|55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br />

Revision as of 12:20, 4 November 2021

The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of information but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.
MASIS report of the European Commission

       —add a quotation about knowledge or writing