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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 the idea that only practical knowledge needs to be remembered with the mistaken belief that all knowledge worth learning must be memorized. This misunderstanding leads to excessive focus on trivial details rather than important, useful information.
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