Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.
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About James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was a 18th-century American writer. James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune. He lived much of his boyhood and his last 15 years in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Education — The importance of teaching, learning, and intellectual curiosity