easy it is to confuse culture with erudition. The culture does not really depends on the accumulation of knowledge in various subjects including, but order that this knowledge stored in our memory and the presence of this knowledge in our behavior. Knowledge of an educated man can not be very numerous, but are harmonious, coherent and above all interrelated. The scholar, knowledge seem to be stored in separate partitions. In the cult are distributed according to an internal order that allows the exchange and its fruition. His readings, your experiences are in fermentation and continuously generate new wealth, is like the man who opens an account with interest. The scholar as a miser, keep their assets in half, in which only fits the mold and repeat. In the first case the knowledge begets knowledge. In the second knowledge is added to knowledge. A man who knows by heart the entire theater of Beaumarchais is a scholar, but worship is one who, having just read "The Marriage of Figaro" is aware of the relationship between this work and French Revolution or from the author and the intellectuals of our time. For this reason, a component of a primitive tribe that owns the world's ten most cultured basics that Byzantine religious art specialist who can not fry a few eggs.
Julio Ramón Ribeyro
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