A few days ago
hi

what word would you describe soemone who said:?

ignorance must always be intolerant but understand the illiteracy

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A few days ago
Bethany

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Here is the actual quote:

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”

Maya Angelou

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A few days ago
Tatsbabe
When I read Max’s answer, I thought he was really clever to have worked that out but now I am not so sure.

Ignorance, in my opinion, is being uneducated in a particular subject or being unaware and uneducated in general. Therefore, I fail to see how ignorance (or an ignorant person) could ‘understand’ (emotionally speaking) illiteracy (or a person who was illiterate).

In this respect, I don’t think the sentence is very coherent. The word I would chose to describe the person who said this sentence would be ‘incoherent’.

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A few days ago
Max
“Educated”. Ignorance is lack of knowledge. Illiteracy is the inability to acquire knowledge through reading. That would rule out “wise” because it does not take education to be wise.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
i would question then and ask if they looked that up and if they really go by that
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A few days ago
Anonymous
uhh i don’t really know what that means but “smart” i guess… lol =) Why? What would you call them?
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A few days ago
Jaye
compassionate
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