Education Provides Hooks to Hang New Knowledge

Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: the most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.

Notes:

This is a great metaphor for MemexPlex.

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 The Sacred Depths of Nature
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 Insight is the Greatest Virtue

Knowledge is the most important moral.
Folksonomies: virtue ethics
Folksonomies: virtue ethics
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