letric

Originally Posted by letric

The educated classes are learning to blame ideas for our troubles, rather than...our own bad thinking. This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking, and nowadays the errors of academicism...make their own way into the world, and what begins as a failure of perception among intellectual specialists finds its fulfilment in policy and action.

The Liberal Imagination. (1950) 'The Sense of the Past'