Commentary
For some time I have been meaning to write about the subject of “experts” but hesitated—until a friend sent me this eloquent quotation on the subject from Winston Churchill:
“Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.”
This is reminiscent of William F. Buckley Jr.’s famous “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.”…