John

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov