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- Title
Learning needn't be aardvark.
- Authors
Watson, Derek
- Abstract
When I was a boy I wanted to know everything and I was upset that I had missed living through the Industrial Revolution, which sounded like quite an exciting time. I resolved to become a polymath. It's difficult to say what sparks off a quest for knowledge. In my case it was probably one of the 'cut-away' illustrations that appeared in the popular literature of my youth and a history of the world encyclopaedia I got for my birthday. Technically, they are 'breakaway' drawings as many of them were realised by a single hole in the outside of the object. I didn't decide to become a pedant: that came naturally.
- Subjects
AARDVARK; INDUSTRIAL revolution; POLYMATHS (Persons); ENCYCLOPEDIAS &; dictionaries; PEDANTRY
- Publication
Faculty Dental Journal, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 4, p210
- ISSN
2042-6852
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1308/204268513X13776914745078