Education analogy/ignorance

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Ignorance is to education as disease is to medicine.

What do you think?

You'll do me a much greater good if you give my soul relief from ignorance, than if you gave my body relief from disease.
Socrates in Lesser Hippias[1]
  1. ↑ Plato. Lesser Hippias, 373a. Nicholas D. Smith, trans. Plato: Complete Works. John M. Cooper, ed. (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1997) p. 932
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