From Jacques Barzun's Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning
. . .another illusion bred by university research, the idea of the obsolete, the apparent elimination of the past by the future, the belief propagated by science and industry that later is better, even when later has not yet come about and is only a prophecy by enthusiasts with something to sell.
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