Sentence examples for old error from inspiring English sources

In "Of Education," Milton criticizes universities for the "old error" of subjecting their "young unmatriculated novices" to "abstractions of logic and metaphysics" instead of beginning with "arts most easy" and "most obvious to the sense".

By and large, the most successful big firms focus on their core businesses.Policymakers should both resist an instinctive suspicion of big companies (see article) and avoid the old error of embracing national champions.

Finally, Schlegel "committed the old error of confounding 'abstract and 'universal' when he believed he had to make that [Absolute] ground [of art] into an individual", Benjamin claims (SW 1, 166 7).

Incredibly, the old errors lived on for years.

It's not unusual for political parties to embrace misguided ideas, pursue poorly thought-out strategies, persist in old errors and embrace new ones eagerly.

But his assumptions recapitulate the same old errors: The right in the 20th century didn't stand for individual freedom, but for free-market ideology, which is not the same thing.

I've been arguing for a while that much of the economics profession has lost its way, recapitulating old errors because it made a point of unlearning what Keynes taught.

"If this government truly represents change, and wants to show that it is not going to repeat the old errors, then it will address all the issues that provoked war," the subcommander said, smoking a pipe through a hole at the bottom of his ski mask.

To paraphrase an old line about Vietnam, sometimes it seems to me that we haven't spent four years discussing the response to economic crisis; we've spent one year discussing the crisis, four times, with the discussion starting up each year as if nobody can remember or learn from what went before, and with constant repetition of the same old errors and fallacies.

Our insistence today on openness and independence is rooted in a distinct educational philosophy that embraces critical thinking and active debate as the best ways of pursuing truth, correcting old errors, and developing new ideas.

When there is misconduct like this, the false papers and studies need to be retracted, the record needs to be officially corrected, new results must be published without the old errors, and the public and local community need assurances that similar misconduct and fraud will not be repeated.