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> We move from data to information to knowledge to wisdom. And separating one from the other, being able to distinguish among and between them, that is, knowing the limitations and the danger of exercising one without the others, while respecting each category of intelligence, is generally what serious education is about.

themarginalian.org/2019/03/06/
#TonyMorrison #TheMarginalian
#InformationAndWisdom
#DataAndKnowledge
#SeriousEducation
/HT @mariapopova

24 April at 2:53 | Open on mstdn.jp
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> ... it’s seductive, to assume that data is really knowledge. Or that information is, indeed, wisdom. Or that knowledge can exist without data. And how easy, and how effortlessly, one can parade and disguise itself as another. And how quickly we can forget that wisdom without knowledge, wisdom without any data, is just a hunch...
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24 April at 2:55 | Open on mstdn.jp
bs2

> What I needed was imagination to shore up the facts, the data, and not be overwhelmed by them. Imagination that personalized information, made it intimate, but didn’t offer itself as a substitute. If imagination could be depended on for that, then there was the possibility of knowledge. Wisdom, of course, I would leave alone, and rely on the readers to produce that.
#ToniMorrison about #Beloved
#LearningWisdom #WritingForWisdom #EP3Wisdom

24 April at 3:07 | Open on mstdn.jp
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