Definition of Pedantry

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Definition of Pedantry
	Pedantry The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. Related Definitions: Act, Character, Learning, Of, Or, Ostentation, Pedant, The, Vain

Pedantry Quotations

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
Albert J. Nock

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
Albert J. Nock

The wages of pedantry is pain.
Carroll O'Connor

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Albert J. Nock

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
Henry S. Canby

Pedantry Translations

pedantry in German is Pedanterie
pedantry in Spanish is pedanteria

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