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Always Behind

Campus Life / common knowledge-explosion observation

“Knowledge is expanding faster than any person can absorb.” Even a lifetime of continuous reading leaves one further behind at the end than at the beginning. The observation is not anti-learning. It is a check on the pride of mastery.

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Humbling reminder of the limits of human mastery. Wisdom is more than accumulation of data.

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