From hearer's memory in Jewish Frontier, vol. 29 (1962).
• Alternate version: Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
• As quoted in Infinite Riches: Gems from a Lifetime of Reading (1979) by Leo Calvin Rosten, p. 165
• Alternate version: Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
• As quoted in Infinite Riches: Gems from a Lifetime of Reading (1979) by Leo Calvin Rosten, p. 165
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Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.
— John Maynard Keynes
What It Means
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• Alternate version: Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
• As quoted in Infinite Riches: Gems from a Lifetime of Reading (1979) by Leo Calvin Rosten, p. 165" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies.
About John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies.
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