vital transferable skill in education

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Pritchard claims that within education, having a strong intellectual character, and thus possessing intellectual virtues is a vital transferable skill, primarily because intellectual virtues and cognitive abilities are far more applicable, scalable and liable to bring about more true beliefs, rather than rote memorization. (What is this thing called Knowledge, Ch. 15). He claims that,

The point is that it seems that what we really want from a good educational system, from a purely epistemic point of view, is ultimately a way of developing intellectual character and thus intellectual virtue.