But, there are different kinds of knowing. One does not know much until she knows that. One knows facts . . . It seems today that there is a vast chasm of ignorance. Sixty-two percent of high school seniors cannot identify the opening words to the Declaration of Independence.
Ignorance is bondage, and there is enough to go around.
We are flooded with information but starving for knowledge. Americans have an information fetish despite the fact that info is making no one smarter or a better human being. The more data we absorb, the dumber and meaner we get. The simple explanation is that the information glut allows no time for reflection. Information is useless without time in which to think about what it means.