22 January 2005

on not knowing

Loved this, it diagrammises something I increasingly recognise as important, I think ...

The paradox that we often need to know something in order to recognise what it is we don't know. That's the 'space' where research takes place. Learning is often bringing us to the point of at least knowing what it is we don't [yet] know. The struggle is often to have the humility to admit that what you know is so little ...
gapingvoid: china net

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"Spend and tax" not "tax and spend"

 I got a response from my MP which got me kind of mad. You'll see why as I reproduce it here. Apologies for the strange changes in types...