Single Idea 19245

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles]

Full Idea

It is not the man who thinks he knows it all, that can bring other men to feel their need for learning, and it is only a deep sense that one is miserably ignorant that can spur one on in the toilsome path of learning.

Gist of Idea

We are not inspired by other people's knowledge; a sense of our ignorance motivates study

Source

Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], IV)

Book Reference

Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things', ed/tr. Ketner,K.L. [Harvard 1992], p.171