Meaning of pedantry in English

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  2. Noun
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  1. Noun

    pedantry

    Definitions

    1. a ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning

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

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