> "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who /*insist/* on
knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
The words that cause the trouble here are I suppose "real" and
"knowing". People want to be educated for many other reasons besides
wanting to become "knowers", in Pound's particular sense. Educating
people to know the kinds of things Pound thought he knew, in the ways in
which he thought he knew them, is at most a small part of education (one
could argue that the "really" educated are those who have been brought
to the realisation that such things are not altogether knowable in such
ways).
For Pound it appears that the function of knowing is to distinguish
oneself from "sheep". Again, this is crank territory. Only the crank is
enlightened; everyone else is a willing dupe. Dupe of whom? For some
reason, the answer almost always seems to be, in one form or another,
"the Jews".
Dominic
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