Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.