Which costs more? Ignorance or knowledge?

Not finishing college has cost me dearly. As punishment I have had to work a life of hard labor. Which pays a lot less than jobs requiring a sheep skin. Now all I have to show for it is a crappy home and a broken back.

it has be answered many times by all these people

yet princess explained it in a long detail

and AA explained it in a simplified short answer

and here is the thing

look back at your life, since you were a kid, till where you stand right now

imagine your were ignorant

all that you will lose from that time to this and to the future

that is your cost, the cost of your ignorance ( not calling you ignorant, just making an example )

then think however of the gain of ignorance

then compare both gains

and YOU tell me which is the costly one

I don't think it is so cut and dry because the outcome might be just the same regardless of ones ignorance or knowledge. A highly educated person or one who is knowledgeable experience wise either way...versus ignorance can cancel out the other when one is just plain overcome by an emotional response for instance or rushed for time and makes mistakes. Knowledge is better but life doesn't give any guarantees that knowledge will make everything all well.

Well... excluding all the hard work put into obtaining all that knowledge, I would have to say Ignorance costs more.

With knowledge, you are benefited with the competence that knowledge gives you. This can lead to learning even more, or perhaps the desire to learn more. You have a much higher chance of gaining from preexisting knowledge than losing.

Define "cost"

Ignorance obviously costs more in human life because Medical and Biological knowledge saves life.

That's a great question indeed!!

The obvious costs we can decide upon and take care of; it is the hidden costs that tend to tax us the more and in that respect the bigger culprit is ignorance.... not too rarely is the case that one pays through life due to ignorance!!

Knowledge is what keeps you alive. Knowing that fire is hot, that you can't breathe water, that cars are bigger than you - you'd die without it, or live at the mercy of others. When it comes to the bigger things, like knowing how to read or write, it's not about death but still about being at the mercy of others. Knowing things not only defines who you are (I believe who we are is based on our memories and experiences) but allows you to defend that against the constantly influencing world. So, in a way, knowing the bigger things is still about life or death...but intellectually, because if you're not your own person you're as mentally disabled as anyone who is retarded or autistic (which is a kind of death.)

Ignorance costs more.

If you get the acknowledge, you could always pretend that you don't know and "ignore" it. But if you ignore from the beginning, you will never have the knowledge.

Ignorance is only cost but knowledge first cost then gain and gain....

Ignorance; see the movie 'The Party' with Peter Sellers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEWTTbtl82s

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=peter+sellers+...