> One of the great paradoxes of education is that only when one knows something deeply can one recognize how little one actually knows. The superficial knowledge of vague generalities is a curse of education—the target of Pope’s “a little learning is a dangerous thing.” Alexander Pope suggests that if you are to drink from the springs of knowledge, you will experience the paradox that:
>> . . . shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
>> And drinking largely sobers us again.