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“When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite.You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.”

“It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.”

Hard Reality Accepting Honesty Ignorance Willing Intellectual Opposites Intellectual Honesty

Book:Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

Source: Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

“In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.”

Knows Existence Teacher Students Ignorance Concepts Opposites Absolutes Justify Considering Self Knowledge Banking Knowledgeable

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.”

World Perfect Knowing Ignorance Opposites Longing Worthy Dues Contradiction Lovable

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.”

Ignorance Opposites Deceit Fraud

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them”

World Children Doe Book Kids Father Difficult Deals Darkness Issues Ignorance Protect Opposites Our Children Vulnerable Censorship Censoring Censoring Books

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.”

Answers Pay Attention Accepting Ignorance Opposites

Author:Richard Saul Wurman

“In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.”

Spiritual Ignorance Opposites Obedience Realms Epic

Book:As Iron Sharpens Iron: Building Character in a Mentoring Relationship

Source: As Iron Sharpens Iron: Building Character in a Mentoring Relationship

“We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true. We also live at a moment of deep ignorance, when vital knowledge that humans have always possessed about who we are and where we live seems beyond our reach. An Unenlightenment. An age of missing information.”

Way Believe Humans Has Beens Important Moments Seems Age Certain Cases Missing Information Ignorance Revolution Opposites Who We Are Possessed Explosions

Book:The end of nature

Source: The end of nature