“No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.”

— Woodrow Wilson

Section V: “The Parliament of the People”, p. 100 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA100&dq=%22No+student+knows+his+subject%22
1910s, The New Freedom (1913)

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