Quote by Elena Ferrante

“It is only as they are free, educated, enlightened, that they become a nuisance,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps…

— Christopher Lasch

“I often wonder what type of evolution has occurred inside the minds of those our society has cast aside because they couldn't afford a…

— Tyler Kent White

“You also educate people thoroughly. From the moment they are born, you constantly remind them of the principles of the imagined order, which are…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions.”

— Ken Follett

“No matter how educated you are, no matter how irrational it seems, you will follow a glimmer of hope.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Upon one great class of subjects, the largest and the most weighty of them all, where the leading and determining considerations that ought to…

— William Ewart Gladstone

“Elites are always indifferent and unconcerned to the plight of common people.”

— Jeffrey Fry

“If it is about education, then all who are college graduates should be wealthy, but we know that there are many highly educated, highly…

— Stephen Richards

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.…

— ralph waldo emerson

“Education is the people's only defense against leaders who would do them harm.”

— Jorge Mario B

“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed eugenics.”

— Nicholas Wade