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1/21/2012 7:09 AMSteve Wilheir wrote: What is this "Discernment"? The others all make sense in their simplicity, but this word, alone, seems to require greater context or clarity. Reply to this
"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit."
-Samuel Johnson
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What is this "Discernment"? The others all make sense in their simplicity, but this word, alone, seems to require greater context or clarity.
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Steve, I borrow from Anderson Layman's Blog this morning:
"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all
things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine
from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine
to the bad and the counterfeit."
-Samuel Johnson
Kurt
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