• There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.

    Alexander Meiklejohn: There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.
    Alexander Meiklejohn (2005). “Education Between Two Worlds”, p.17, Transaction Publishers