I beg to differ, Uneducated is not the opposite of Intelligent.
Comparison can to drawn between educated and uneducated.
Most educated people have more exposure and are ready for change. They are trained to be polite and have much wider perspective. ‘Knowledge is power’
Education helps a person to explore, which makes him more liberal.
The reason why education makes people liberal can be understood in the story below.
Little Frog in the Well
My good friends, imagine if you were to live at the bottom of a deep, dark well. What kind of world would you see?
There
was a Little Frog who lived at the bottom of a deep, dark well. Now let
us go down there and see what kind of world he had.
It
was a very old well filled with shallow water at the bottom. The walls
of the well were all covered with wet moss. When the Little Frog was
thirsty, he drank a little bit of the well water, and when he was
hungry, he ate some insects. When he was tired, he lay on a little rock
at the bottom of the well and looked up at the sky above him. Sometimes
he saw passing clouds. He was very happy and satisfied.
Now,
the Little Frog had been living at the bottom of this old well since he
was born. He had never been to the outside world. Whenever a bird or
birds flew by and stopped at the edge of the well, the Little Frog
always looked up and bragged, "Hello! why don't you come down here and
play with me. It's so pleasant down here. Look, I have cool water to
drink and countless insects to eat. Come down! At night I can watch the
twinkling stars, and sometimes I can see the beautiful moon, too."
Sometimes
the birds would tell the Little Frog, "Hi, Little Frog! You see, the
outside world is much bigger and nicer. It's many times more beautiful
than your little well at the bottom. " But the Little Frog would not
believe them. "Don't lie to me, I don't believe there is any place that
could be better than here. "
Gradually, all the birds began to dislike him They thought he was too stubborn and stopped talking to him.
The Little Frog could not understand why nobody would like to come down to his nice place.
One
day, a yellow sparrow stopped by at the edge of the well. The Little
Frog was so excited he greeted the sparrow and invited the sparrow
eagerly. "Hello, Mr. Yellow Sparrow, how are you? Please come down to my
most beautiful house." The yellow sparrow did not say a word and flew
away. The next day the yellow sparrow came again and the same thing
happened again. It went on for six days. On the seventh day, the yellow
sparrow finally said, "Little Frog, may I show you the outside world?"
But the Little Frog refused the offer.
Finally
the yellow sparrow became angry. He flew down to the bottom of the well,
picked up the Little Frog on his back, and flew out of the well.
"Oh!"
the Little Frog exclaimed. "How is it that the outside world is so
big!" He had been in the bottom of his dark well for so long that the
bright sunshine made his eyes blink shut, and he could hardly open his
eyes to see.
When he finally opened his eyes,
he saw so many things around him. "Hey! Be careful! Don't hit this
strange thing. What are all these green high and low things?" The yellow
sparrow laughed happily: "Ha! ha! These are mountains and valleys.
There are countless mountains in this world. The Himalayas, the Swiss
Alps, the Rockies and... "
The Little Frog
could not believe there were so many big mountains in the world. When
they flew over the high mountains, the next view made the Little Frog
even more surprised.
"What is this long, silvery, shiny view?"
"It is a river," the yellow sparrow replied.
"Then what is that huge, blue thing over there?"
"That is a sea," the yellow sparrow replied.
"That
river and sea, how much water do they have? How much bigger are they
than my well? They must hold a billion times more water than my well."
The Little Frog began to realize how tiny his well was. "Let's go down,
O.K. ?" The yellow sparrow put the Little Frog down on the ground and
flew away.
The Little Frog jumped into the
grass and saw many beautiful flowers of different colors. He had never
seen such beautiful flowers and had never smelled such nice scents. He
kept on going and went into a forest. In it he looked up and saw many
tall trees. He looked down and found many different kinds of fruits that
had fallen to the ground. He picked up an apple and tasted it. "Wow, so
sweet !" Then he listened to the beautiful singing of the birds. The
cute squirrels were jumping, the monkeys were swinging from branch to
branch, and the antelopes were scampering speedily.
In
the pond, the lotus flowers were dancing in the air, and the lotus
leaves were floating on the water like umbrellas. There were many fish
in the water.
"The outside world is so big, so
wonderful, and beautiful!" The Little Frog finally cried out happily and
jumped into the pond. He climbed up on a huge lotus leaf and enjoyed
his new life there. The yellow sparrow came back and asked, "Little
Frog! How's this outside world? Big? Beautiful?"
"Thank
you very much. If you had not brought me out to see this world, I would
never had known that there are such beautiful things that exist outside
my well ." The Little Frog never tried to go back to his old well
again.
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