Like a Cat on the Stove-Lid: On Learning #4

Education is of the hand as well as of the head and heart. Some of the gray matter seems to be in the fingers, which had better be familiar with their hidden wisdom.

-Mark Van Doren
LiberalEducation

Knowing includes knowing how to do, whether in poetry or in mechanics, whether with levers or with laws; and a time promises to come when the distinction between brain and hand is divested of its present snobbery.

-Mark Van Doren
Liberal Education

Ignoramus, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

-Ambrose Bierce