Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?

Norman MacCaig
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To be a scholar is to be someone who is highly intelligent and knowledgeable on a certain subject, for example; it may be a person who is very skilled with words. A new way of thinking or articulating an idea might also be considered as a form of scholarship. This quote captures the idea of scholarship as not just theory but as practice. There may be many lines that scholars can write on, but if their work is not true to life then it will mean nothing.

People who read the book and put their minds into it without trying to apply what they have read will go no further than reading about the subject. Scholars should look at the world and see how they can apply their knowledge to make it better, or they will become no more than an academic elite.

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