Carolina QuotesThe former distrust of specialization has been supplanted by its opposite, a distrust of generalization. Not only has man become a specialist in practice, he is being taught that special facts represent the highest form of knowledge.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
p. 59
- work
- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
- locator
- p. 59
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