It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
Interpretation
Intolerance indicates a lack of education, while a true education fosters humility.
This quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn emphasizes that true education goes beyond factual knowledge; it cultivates understanding and empathy. Intolerance is described as a result of inadequate education, where an uneducated person displays arrogant impatience, while a well-educated individual exhibits humility and comprehension of diverse perspectives.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about the importance of education reform.
At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest.
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.
Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.
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