Chapter 75The Ignorant Are The Most Violent
Several centuries ago, wise Alexander Pope
wrote a simple statement of fact which offers benefits in
many phases of modem conduct.
Pope wrote, "There never was any party, fac-
tion or sect, in which the most ignorant were not the most
violent:~
It should be a deterrent to violence-or to the
advocacy of violence-just for it to be widely known that
violence would publicly and privately brand an individual
or group as being the "most ignorant" of their fellow men.
It will better prepare us to deal with violence,
by knowing that it will come from the most ignorant.
And it should motivate us, not only to speed,
but to spread, education to all levels of our society, know-
ing that by increasing education we proportionately di-
minsh one of the major causes of violence.
But let us note carefully the part education
plays in violence. Often educated leaders use their own