A reader must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill … the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading. The true reader is a man of intense curiosity; of ideas; open-minded and communicative, to whom reading is more of the nature of brisk exercise in the open air than of sheltered study.
Virginia Woolf, cited in a wonderful essay on her self-education – a point reminiscent of Abraham Flexner’s brilliant case for the usefulness of useless knowledge.
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