Charles Letbetter

“Today, in a world with instant access to Google, we rely on the electronic web to supply everything we need, from historical facts to word definitions and spellings as well as extended quotations. All of us who use a computer are aware of the shock of inner poverty that we suddenly feel when deprived (by a virus or other disaster) of our mental crutches even just for a day or a week. Plato is right: memory has been stripped from us, and all we possess is an external reminder of what we have lost, enabling us to pretend to a wisdom and an inner life we no longer possess in ourselves.13”
― Stratford Caldecott, Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education

“Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.”
― Plato, The Republic