The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are

Today this country is also home to a populace that, to an alarming extent, ignores scientific advances or outright rejects scientific principles.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.

With all the stir made about education, the ignorance of our own country's history is something lamentable and appalling and depressing.

University education is critical and it is been ignored in countries like Somalia, South Sudan Northern Niger, Chad.

"Many highly schooled people are uneducated, and many highly "educated" people are unschooled."

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.

We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write. This but partially expresses the fact. They are ignorant of the world about them, of modern economic organization, of the function of government, of individual worth and possibilities, — of nearly all those things which slavery in self-defence had to keep them from learning.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

The overeducated are worse off than the undereducated, having traded common sense for the illusion of knowledge.

Express gratitude Before you complain about school, remember that some people can’t even get an education.

The public is insufficiently educated on how to be a good public.