The Sycamore, 1929 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Sycamore, 1929 Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of. Information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. What we should aim at producing is men who possess both culture and expert knowledge in some special direction. Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge. Pedants sneer at an education that is useful. But if education is not useful, what is'it? Is it a talent, to. Be hidden away in a napkin? It is useful because understanding is useful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.