Quotation by
Albert J. Nock
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
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People often confuse useful knowledge, which is important to remember, with all knowledge that might be worth learning, assuming both must be memorized. This mistaken belief leads to pedantry, where people focus on trivial details instead of truly valuable information.
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