Good education requires both disciplined rigor and imaginative freedom: disciplined study of difficult foundational knowledge (trigonometry, calculus, classical languages, Greek) must precede and enable creative thinking, not substitute for it.

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Rupert Sheldrake

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I mean what I want to emphasize is it's not about letting it all hang out I mean it was an enormous amount of discipline you know at an early age one had to know trigonometry and calculus one had to be able to understand Greek grammar and Latin all these things and and these are difficult

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Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversationDr Iain McGilchrist
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:27:29 PM

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