Mental Ignorance: The Lack Of Knowledge Of Education

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Ignorance is the lack of knowledge of information, incomprehension of education, or being in the state of being uninformed about something. Thus, everyone is ignorant in some areas of education, because even the uncommon, accelerated, over achieving human is ignorant. Another word for ignorance is Mental Fermentation. Mental Fermentation is associated with The Four Noble Truths and The Five Hindrances. The Five Hindrances will obscure, obstruct, and distort the outcomes of The Four Noble Truths. According to The Five Hindrances, ignorance, or in other words, Mental Fermentation causes those to feel restless Roberts 2 and regretful (What-Buddha-Said). The following incident from a student that attends Duke University revealed in Durham, …show more content…

I am the student who created the noose and after playing around with it left it hanging on a low tree branch next to a table where I had been sitting with some of my friends. At the time, I truly did not appreciate the historical sensitivity of a noose hanging in a tree. As a result of this incident people should feel that at this rate of ignorance, increasing day by day, the world would be living hell in the next ten years. The world may not see what ignorance is doing to the society right now, but when ten years come and go by, the world will then see the difference and damage it is …show more content…

Which contributes to ignorance in America. According to SmartSmartSmart (Debate.org), “Ignorance will be the death of us. Ignorance is definitely an issue. I think there is more ignorance in America than any other place in the world when it comes to education and war.” Also, Americans do not understand the threat that other countries make against us. Other countries consider Americans to be lazy. As a whole. Although there are a few Americans that take full advantage of their education, that does not make a difference if most of the country does not take their education seriously. According to the United States Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics, the following graph indicates that facts upon Americans not caring about

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