To be taught to readwhat is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speakbut what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to thinknay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
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About John Ruskin
John Ruskin was a 19th-century English writer and art critic. John Ruskin was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Knowledge — The pursuit of learning, understanding, and intellectual growth