Kural - The Great Book Of Tiru-Valluvar
Major Sections
Books By Rajaji

ON BEING UNLETTERED

The office of learning is to make the mind penetrating lofty, and rich with information.

Wealth in the hands of ignorant men, and poverty that afflicts learned men, cause grief to them as well as to the world at large.  But between the two misfits, the latter is not so great a misfortune as the former;  for, while poverty cannot cause real harm to the spirit of the learned, wealth in the hands of the ignorant is a danger to the world:

The unlettered though born in a higher social class are inferior in status to those who though born low have acquired learning:

About On Being Unlettered
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