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Knowledge is power.

Oh, that's not relevant for today."
"I don't need to know that."
"You're overloading your brain with useless information."
"What good are algebra and chemistry and history going to do me when I am working in sales?"
I have heard all the arguments against learning, and most of them reduce to:
1. Too much learning over taxes the brain.
2. Certain kinds of knowledge are irrelevant.
The first argument is untrue. The second argument mistakenly implies that we need to learn only the material that we will actually use in our jobs.
Neither argument is valid.
Before I refute them, I want to point out that in my acrostic for Thinking Big, I decided that K stands for KNOWLEDGE.
This subject is dear to my heart because often knowledge is disdained, particularly among students in inner-city schools.
So therefore, I refute the two general arguments against learning, which the following contentions are:-
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