Fallacy Fallacy

A fallacy is a shortcut with a pothole in it. Fallacy Fallacy is one of the busier potholes on the road of reasoning.

Once you can name this fallacy, you will hear it everywhere — in advertisements, in debates, in your own head at 2 a.m. Do not despair. Hearing it is the beginning of escaping it.

A good librarian is a quiet revolutionary. She knows that a child with a borrowing card and a long afternoon is more dangerous to ignorance than any syllabus.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. One page cannot change a life. But one recognised pattern can change a Tuesday, and lives are made of Tuesdays.