It was a plague that involved 100 witches, a number that grew to 307 or later to 500. Erudition plays much more of a role in this story than does ignorance.
It gives you a peek inside her brain. Your erudition will do you nothing in America.
And the more a person studies classics of his contemporaries, the more he will learn anew about the methods that he can use-- or he or she can use. I believe that erudition and knowledge are the keys to everything. They are analogs for fundamental creative education, which is not received by every photographer, now.
And I think what we're seeing is a kind of evolution in our notion of what it means to be erudite. So for Socrates erudition meant having all of these internally stored memories that were sort of always there at the forefront of his mind.
So I was sort of putting the guy on the spot. He was very gracious and very erudite in his answers. But it took some doing just to get in.
he was able to promulgate his various theories, almost all of which were wrong, about what was at the top of the world. But people believed him because he was erudite, he was a German scholar, and he also had excellent facial hair, like a lot of the characters in this book. This is one of his master works, "The Atlas of Physical Geography." His birthplace, I went to Germany and tried to begin to understand his world and the power
And I watched as much as I could about who he was away from the iconic cigar chomping gangster that a lot of people knew him as and found him to be quite erudite. And our script, written by John McNamara, really explores more of that personal side than it does the icon that he was known for.
He had a chair in theology. He was a very respected, erudite theologian in Palma at the time. That university, the Lullian University in Palma was closed in 1835.
Last anecdote-- in 1470, 15 years after Gutenberg's Bible, Niccoló Perotti, a translator of Latin in Italy, was much offended by a shoddy translation of Pliny. And he demanded that the Pope-- he wrote to the Pope and demanded that he appoint a censor for the press to an erudite and scholarly person to approve everything before it got printed.
DARPA pumped an enormous amount of money into its urban operation programs, and it created a system called Combat Zones That See. I mean, it was like speaking to the most erudite person you could imagine.
to innovative thinkers, into people who can process the world and so why should we waste our time on content, it's just gonna get forgotten about anyways?" And I think what we're seeing is a kind of evolution in our notion of what it means to be erudite. So for Socrates erudition meant having all of these internally stored memories that were
It's a very different sort of notion of reading than we have today. After Gutenberg, after books become mass produced commodities, erudition evolves from having all this stuff stored internally to knowing how and where to find information in this labyrinthine world of external memories, there are now books everywhere.
organizations that are the most successful I teach down at Stanford so I see this happen we're really successful chemical companies start to hire all you know Stanford and Harvard MBAs and people who are really quite erudite and the more successful you are the more successful you are and hiring the top cream of the crop of the world and so what happens is
and intelligent stupidity. Now ordinary stupidity is what a lot of people might associate with cognitive ability. Some people just can't do certain things. I can't do flat pack very well. But intelligent stupidity is when somebody who is otherwise incredibly able, somebody who is otherwise incredibly talented, articulate, erudite, uses their abilities for some foolish end. And what Musul and Bonhoeffer were writing about and what they were talking about was of course Nazism. Here you had a system that was populated by intelligent people and yet
begins to form after first two or three years of intensive study in one or another visual practice. In all other cases, in my opinion, the outlook and erudition comes out. And the more a person studies classics of his contemporaries, the more he will learn anew about the methods that he can use-- or he or she can use.
wouldn't have taken it very seriously, just like I don't take most of the emails that I receive all that seriously. But unfortunately, that mantra was repeated, usually in a lot more erudite way than that. Without the capital letters.
labyrinthine world of external memories, there are now books everywhere. I'd argue that there is sort of a new kind of, new stage in this evolution of erudition which is that we no longer have to even know how and where to find stuff we just need to know the right set of search terms and then Google can take care of the rest.
I think that they're a way to hook up. male #4: In the print media, in the example that I think of like, major newspapers, of the major newspaper that tried to do this, tried to be erudite and educate people in