The Ivory Tower and the pursuit of knowledge

[loostudent]

And even for the same person, the best road to take at age 20 is probably not the best road to take at age 30, 40, 60...

From the tao-te-ching:

"In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped."

Maybe this are two phases of the same path. The paradox is that the goal of knowledge is ignorance. But this is not the same as the beginning ignorance. It's also known as "learned ignorance" (docta ignorantia).