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Jennifer · 30 Jul 2006, 00:09

Sometimes I forget how ignorant some people are of just how much knowledge there is in the world, and how so many people seem to think that just because soemone doesn't happen to possess the same little gems of trivia as them, it somehow makes them uneducated.

People will stand around, painted utterly incredulous, remarking on how terrible it is that someone who calls herself educated hasn't even read Hamlet.

And then I wonder aloud if they could tell me what the Second Law of Thermodynamics is. Of course they can't. But they don't seem to think that their lack of knowledge of one of the most simple, basic ideas in science is anything to worry about, and will quite happily admit to not knowing something scientific of a level so basic that it's pretty much equivalent to knowing the difference between 'there', 'their' and 'they're'.

30 Jul 2006, 00:09	#14
Jennifer Destroyer of Worlds Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 552	Re: Sometimes I forget.... Sometimes I forget how ignorant some people are of just how much knowledge there is in the world, and how so many people seem to think that just because soemone doesn't happen to possess the same little gems of trivia as them, it somehow makes them uneducated. People will stand around, painted utterly incredulous, remarking on how terrible it is that someone who calls herself educated hasn't even read Hamlet. And then I wonder aloud if they could tell me what the Second Law of Thermodynamics is. Of course they can't. But they don't seem to think that their lack of knowledge of one of the most simple, basic ideas in science is anything to worry about, and will quite happily admit to not knowing something scientific of a level so basic that it's pretty much equivalent to knowing the difference between 'there', 'their' and 'they're'. __________________ “In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.”