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Grasping The Structure Of A Subject Is Understanding It In A Way That Permits Many Other Things To Be Related To It Meaningfully. To Learn Structure In Short, Is To Learn How Things Are Related.

Surely Knowledge Of The Natural World, Knowledge Of The Human Condition, Knowledge Of The Nature And Dynamics Of Society, Knowledge Of The Past So That One May Use It In Experiencing The Present And Aspiring To The Future--all Of These, It Would Seem Reasonable To Suppose, Are Essential To An Educated Man. To These Must Be Added Another--knowledge Of The Products Of Our Artistic Heritage That Mark The History Of Our Esthetic Wonder And Delight.

The Foundations Of Any Subject May Be Taught To Anybody At Any Age In Some Form.

Knowledge Helps Only When It Descends Into Habits.

Apollo Without Dionysus May Indeed Be A Well-informed, Good Citizen But He's A Dull Fellow. He May Even Be 'cultured,' In The Sense One Often Gets From Traditionalist Writings In Education. . . . But Without Dionysus He Will Never Make And Remake A Culture.