The Educated

Eric Hoffer long warned that the educated people,, traditionally part of any ruling class, will serve any tyrant, no matter how cruel or arbitrary. Ghandi warned about the hard-heartedness of the educated class. Bernard Mandeville repudiated the suggestion that the educated are more moral than illiterate peasants in the field. Being educated makes one credentialed, smarter, and a possessor of more knowledge, but wisdom, kindness and acceptance need not be added. There is a lack of pity in the educated, a mercilessness and passion for ruling and directing the private lives of the masses. Where the educated serve a mass movement like the Third Reich, the educated can put people in ovens.