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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."— Mark Twain
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Meaning of this quote
Education can replace unjustified certainty with a more complicated awareness of what is unknown. The humour acknowledges the discomfort of learning rather than presenting ignorance as preferable.
Key takeaway:
Let learning make your certainty better informed.
Origin of the quote
Circulates under Twain's name in educational-humour collections.
Who actually said this?
Commonly attributedThe university-hosted collection is a list of jokes, not a primary Twain text. No original publication or recorded occasion was established.
