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HES: Re: QUERY--Why teach the history of error?
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[log in to unmask] (Prabhu Guptara)
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Fri Mar 31 17:18:47 2006
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To the idea that it's a waste of time to read the old authors, because =  
we know so much more than they did, T.S. Eliot responded by saying, =  
"Yes. And they are what we know."   
  
If I recollect aright, that's in his book "Notes Towards the Definition =  
of Culture(1948)".  
  
Prabhu Guptara  
  
 

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