Monday 31 October 2016

INCOMMUNICABLE KNOWLEDGE

'Older farmers I knew used to be fond of saying, "I can't tell you how to do that, but I can put you where you can learn." There is such a thing, then, as incommunicable knowledge, knowledge that comes only by experience and by association.' 
Wendell Berry, 'Local Knowledge in the Age of Information' in The Way of Ignorance, p.125.