The ignorant do seem to despise the educated, and vice-versa. Our culture glorifies ignorance, yet rewards education. These beloved lyrics were nascent symptoms of our present-day idiocracy: (Kodachrome) ...my lack of education hasn't hurt me none. I can read the writing on the wall... (The Wall) Hey teacher, leave them kids alone!
Ironically, the collective knowledge of mankind lies quite literally at our fingertips, as we grapple with our smartphones, tablets and computers. Our collective ignorance grows in inverse proportion to the ease of access to information.
We cannot spell because these machines do it for us. Same thing goes for math; the number of cash registers, phones, calculators, and programs doing this nasty chore for us has ironically become innumerable. We cannot remember facts and figures, and our flaccid brains lay wasted from disuse.
The Collective Accumulated Knowledge of all intelligent life resides in the collective unconscious. It is a great database. Like all knowledge, it is useless to you if you don't understand it.
This resistance to learning permeates the light heavens, and so the life lessons begin. No child of God may be forced to think. He can be given the choice.
The Thinker who once realizes 'I think therefore I am,' has found the choice, the I AM.
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