What do you think?

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.”

Tolstoy in 1897

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Magenta · F

I think there's a lot of truth here. If we are full of what we think we already know (preconceived), there isn't much room for new info. We have to be a bit childlike when learning. Receptive, wide open, no malice, eyebrows up.