{Relevance from Experience}[10th April 1979]

[Redbook2:147C][19790410:1340a]{Relevance from Experience}[10th April 1979]

1979.04.10.1340

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I suppose it may be – I suppose it must be – that in practice if not in theory not everyone can achieve the same extent of intellectual perception as can the furthest of thinkers. But what they nearly all can do, or should be able to do if rightly educated and motivated, is to assess the product of those thinkers in terms of relevance to their own experience; and in the case of ethical, philosophical, religious and political thought this must, for each individual, be the crucial yardstick. It may be so in other cases as well, even in the case of the 'objective' sciences. But education in this context implies depth of experience as much as of learning

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