A little learning is a dangerous thing: Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. I TAKE my title from these ...

I spent the better part of last night reading an essay by Alexander Pope. It was a Friday night when normal kids were in party mode. People my age were busy having fun and releasing the pressure ...

A little learning is a dangerous thing / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain / And drinking largely sobers us again. —Alexander Pope How dangerous ...

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. Evelyn Waugh was only 60 when he wrote this downbeat opening to his memoir, A Little Learning.

Nineteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope: “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” Corollary: “Omission of facts is deceitful.” Together, both expressions point to today’s ...