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The wages of pedantry is pain.
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.
Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that?
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
I love clothing, and I love fashion, but I think that there is too much pedantry in fashion, and saying, 'You have to wear all of these things together; you can't button this button.' You know, all of that kind of stuff.
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
