Illiteracy is ignorance: education is learned ignorance. Both of them are ignorant of their true aim

Devotee:  Does not education make a sage more useful to the world than illiteracy?


Raman Maharishi:  Even a learned man must bow before the illiterate sage. Illiteracy is ignorance: education is learned ignorance. Both of them are ignorant of their true aim; whereas a sage is not ignorant because there is no aim for him.