10th February 2004, 12:00 AM
So this is referred to as a time of "enlightenment" eh? Well, while I was certainly taught of those things, I never once heard of them all referred to altogether as the "age of enlightenment" or anything of the sort. Just as well, what would be the point aside from an attempt to make students feel superior to everyone else.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)