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what is the meanig of "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"

BarbaraPA · Accepted Answer

What do you think it means?

Hint: What percentage of all human knowledge do you think one person can ever have? When does a person even start to become aware of all the things they don't know?

Englishmaven · Answer

There is a saying "The more you know, the less you know." As we really get into a subject and learn more about it, we realize that there is a lot to learn about it, and there is even more to know that hasn't been learned yet. When you start to learn a language, for example, it seems a little easy to learn vocabulary and make simple sentences. After a year or two, you start to appreciate how much there is to know about a language and you wonder how you could ever be as proficient as a native speaker. Linguists are still getting insights into languages that have been studied a great deal. "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." If this is a writing prompt, which I am guessing it might be, there is a lot to be said on the topic.

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