Ignorance

Illusion of knowledge is not education, but ignorance. Foolish people have a strange kind

of confidence which comes only with ignorance.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn to do things the right

way.

--Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing wrong with ignorance, but making a career out of it is stupidity. Some

people accumulate ignorance and they confuse it with education. Ignorance is not bliss. It

is misery, tragedy, poverty, and sickness. If ignorance were bliss, how come not more

people are happy? If a little knowledge is dangerous, so is a lot of ignorance which leads

to pettiness, fear, dogmatism, egotism, and prejudice. Wisdom is nothing more than

dispelling ignorance.

We live in an information age. It is estimated that the amount of knowledge is doubling

every year. With information so readily available, it is easy to dispel ignorance. It is sad to

see that we are taught everything but the most essential things. We are taught the three

R's (reading, writing, arithmetic), but what good is intellectual education without

understanding human dignity and compassion?

Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink , some to sip and

others just to gargle.