IGNORANCE

IGNORANCE

What is the difference between ignorance and stupidity?  Actually, they go hand in hand.  Generally, stupid people are usually very ignorant.  This is because stupidity is the inability to learn.  On the other hand, ignorance is easily cured by education.  The problem is that stupid people can't or won't learn even when exposed to education.  Education is basically the systematic exposure to smart people.  One purpose of school is to expose the young to (presumably) smart teachers who, (also presumably), will impart factual information to their students.  Thus ignorance is cured.

Stupid people however are constitutionally unable to process or understand the information which is imparted to them.  Thus, they remain ignorant.  Stupid people, being unable to learn, are thus forced to get their opinions from other people.  Usually other ignorant people.  This is why stupid people consistently believe stupid things, and are vulnerable to those who want to manipulate them for their own purposes.

As sad as this is, what is even sadder is the state of American education.  Instead of teaching the young how to think and imparting factual information, today’s schools preach pseudo-religious nonsense to the helpless children.  Many children "graduate" from high school without ever learning to read or write, much less learning to think.  Instead they learn to parrot politically correct slogans.  They are taught to hate their country and the country’s accomplishments.  They are taught a revisionist brand of history that as no relation to the facts.  In fact, they are taught that there is no such thing as a fact. Everything is a matter of opinion, and anybody's opinion is as valid as anyone else's.

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