"knowing the real"

... notable thoughts from Scott Crider on the value of knowledge:

"All liberal arts, in both the sciences and the humanities, are animated by the fundamental human desire to know, the fulfillment of which is a good, even if it provides no economic or political benefit whatsoever. An education for economic productivity and political utility alone is an education for slaves, but an education for finding, collecting, and communicating reality is an education for free people, people free to know what is so Remember knowing the real is a good before it is a power."

- Scott F. Crider, The Office of Assertion