@Godstud
Godstud wrote:As people become more educated, I find that that stupid saying of people getting more conservative as they grow older, isn't true. It's true of the stupid people, however, as less educated people tend to be more conservative.
I think you are correct for the most part. But I have also seen where educated people are conservative (which is not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself unless they are narrow minded and racist). Some people are just as ignorant when they walked into the classroom as the day they graduate with their college degrees. There has to be a willingness on the part of people who enter the classroom to have an open mind and to really learn. The opportunity is there for some people but it's up to them to fully take advantage of those opportunities if they are privileged enough and fortunate enough to have those opportunities.
If they walk in the classroom and go through the motions and complete the work but never opened their mind to learning then they will be just as ignorant as they were when they walked into the classroom. I don't think people are stupid though. There is a difference between stupidity and ignorance. People can be smart but ignorant. For example, some of the Nazis were smart but ignorant.
Education can combat ignorance, so long as the person who enters the classroom is willing to enter that classroom with an open mind, be willing to actually learn something, work hard, the classroom instruction and work is sufficient. That's the key though: so long as the person who enters the classroom is willing to enter that classroom with an open mind, work hard and actually be willing to learn something (and the classroom instruction and work is sufficient) instead of going through the motions to get a passing grade.
It's up to the individual to take the initiative even if the classroom work and instruction is insufficient. You take a look at some of the top Nazis from World War II and some of them had Ph Ds. You also have some people who take the knowledge they learn and toss away ethics if they ever learned any ethics or had any ethics in the first place and use that knowledge to do evil things too.
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