Ignorance

Political activist Emma Goldman once said in Anarchism: What it Really Stands for, “The most violent element in society is ignorance.” This means that increased ignorance will cause more negative than positive. From my experience, ignoring bad things can lead to more issues than facing the problem and finding a way to solve it. In Fahrenheit 451, the characters in that society have made disregarding their problems a part of their culture. It is normalized to not think or speak of sad and…

people in this country treat other as if we are in the 1920’s. How is it ok for media outlets to produce content to persuade people into their ignorant narrow-minded ways? Disney movies are the worst when it comes to sending an alternate message of ignorance; they portray woman as a helpless princess that needs a big strong man in order to live happily ever after or they send a message of racism like in the…

Is Ignorance Bliss? “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life…” (Asimov, Isaac). Many people are ignorant to the subject of anti-intellectualism or just don’t see it as a big issue. There are two definitions of anti-intellectualism, “A person opposed to or hostile toward intellectuals and the modern academic, artistic, social, religious, and other theories associated with them” and also, “A person who believes that intellect and…

treat them poorly without considering the circumstances and the feelings of the person. Most of the obese patients respond to this kind of poor care by becoming nervous, uncomfortable, and defensive about the situation. The fallacy of appeal to ignorance is presented in all three articles. In this situation, the doctors are treating their patients not how they want to be treated ignoring their knowledge on wanting to get a diet or surgery and in this case the doctors thinking their argument is…

"I know, I know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don’t be. Mistakes can be profited from. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn" (Bradbury 104). The words of Professor Faber in Fahrenheit 451 shed light on a society where being politically correct is the only option. Fahrenheit 451…

government of Salem said that they could tell if a person was a witch by weighing them to a stack of bibles and if the person, being accused of being a witch, was heavier or lighter, that person was a witch. The Salem Witch Trials are an example of ignorance in a community; during the trials,…

participating in their civil rights, and therefore should be owned by white community. In Narrative of the Fredrick Douglass, the whites are depicted as individuals who access power and keep blacks from the time they are born till they die. The ignorance that was enforced within the slave community was to ensures that the slave children are deprived of their individual identity. However, as shown through the example of Douglass, as the children tend to grow older, they secretly learn how to read…

Ignorance Is Not Bliss Knowledge is the characteristic people obtained through millennia of trial and error that has allowed humans to become the dominant species and control the Earth. People’s natural curiosity initiated science and technological movements in the early years of humankind's history that have given us new understandings and perspectives of the world. However, before humans had time to move their focus from basic survival to more intellectual endeavors, they were ignorant…

believe that Socrates is the best. Just for the simple fact that he believe all the way until his death that he knew nothing. Only a truly enlightened person will fully admit that they truly know nothing. The text from the book called it “Socrates ignorance”. (Palmer, 30) I find that in my own personal philosophy I fully admit that I know nothing, but I am will to help anyone find out what the answer may be. Asking endless questions is a mark of a gifted person and there could never be enough…

The article that is being reviewed is The Fact of Ignorance: Revisiting the Socratic Method as a Tool for Teaching Critical Thinking from the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 2014; 78 (7) Article 144 by Douglas R. Oyler, PharmD a,b and Frank Romanelli, PharmD, MPH and for the rest of this paper will be referred to as “the article”. In the article the authors discussed the value of critical thinking among health care professionals and re-visited the use of the Socratic method as a…