The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Education creates a vast gap between people similar to life and death.
- In plain terms
- Educated and uneducated people are as different as living and dead.
- What can you take from it?
- Education fundamentally transforms a person's state.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What truly distinguishes the educated?
- Is ignorance really a kind of death?
Another view
The comparison is hyperbolic and undervalues lived experience.
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