Word of the Day for Tuesday, February 8, 2011
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philomath \FIL-uh-math\, noun:
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A lover of learning; a scholar.
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While the B.O. may publicly profess to be a philomath of the U.S. Constitution, he acts more like he is an antagonist as to what the founding fathers meant for it to be, especially when you consider that he said, "We are just 5 days away from fundamentally changing America."!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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It is precisely for the philomaths that universities ought to cater.-- Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies
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It's nothing to laugh about, he says. "Strange things happen in this country -- things that philosophers and other philomaths had never dreamed of."-- Tomek Tryzna, Miss Nobody
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Philomath is from the Greek philomathes, "loving knowledge," from philos, "loving, fond" + mathein, "to learn, to understand."
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