"Please don't tell me". The right not to know.
Knowledge is generally a good thing. People who know lots of bits of information are generally admired. Some of them win prizes in TV competitions. If you were offered the gift of having an entire encyclopedia wired into your brain, you would probably accept, without thinking. But we should be wary...
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| description | Knowledge is generally a good thing. People who know lots of bits of information are generally admired. Some of them win prizes in TV competitions. If you were offered the gift of having an entire encyclopedia wired into your brain, you would probably accept, without thinking. But we should be wary of assuming that all knowledge is good. Too much knowledge can inhibit rather than enable thought. © Copyright Cambridge University Press 2011. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a3775961-d848-4025-86bb-3e0d7e6c84cd2022-03-27T02:27:09Z"Please don't tell me". The right not to know.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a3775961-d848-4025-86bb-3e0d7e6c84cdEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2012Herring, JFoster, CKnowledge is generally a good thing. People who know lots of bits of information are generally admired. Some of them win prizes in TV competitions. If you were offered the gift of having an entire encyclopedia wired into your brain, you would probably accept, without thinking. But we should be wary of assuming that all knowledge is good. Too much knowledge can inhibit rather than enable thought. © Copyright Cambridge University Press 2011. |
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