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Table of contents for 10 Ways To Take A Stand Against Ignorance<\/h3>
  1. The ultimate question, the ultimate answer<\/a><\/li>
  2. The ultimate stand against ignorance<\/a><\/li>
  3. Who’s pulling your chain?<\/a><\/li>
  4. Don’t be part of the choir, no matter who’s preaching<\/a><\/li>
  5. Go to the source<\/a><\/li>
  6. Check it out. Check everything out.<\/a><\/li>
  7. Your own library<\/a><\/li>
  8. Look at your world<\/a><\/li>
  9. Break on through to the other side<\/a><\/li>
  10. Explore strange new worlds<\/li>
  11. Support knowledge expansion<\/a><\/li>
  12. Introduction<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>

    There’s an old saying that goes “You learn something new every day.”<\/p>\n

    Unfortunately, a lot of us don’t learn anything new, for days, even years at a time. This makes us all not only ignorant, but complacently so.<\/p>\n

    Try making a point of learning something new every day. This doesn’t have to mean taking classes or going to a lot of exertion (although both might well be a good idea to meet the goal). It can be as simple as hearing the name of an unfamiliar place on the news, and looking that place up on a map. There, now you know something you didn’t know before. It can be as simple as finding a “word of the day” web site and checking it. The main idea is to make sure that every day, you acquire some kind of knowledge that you didn’t have the day before.<\/p>\n

    Learning something new can be as easy as changing channels. Many Sunday newspapers print TV listings for the week. Take the listings, and start looking at the channels you don’t ordinarily watch. Look for the ones that are full of educational content: PBS, History Channel, Discovery Channel, TLC, BBC America, National Geographic Channel… you get the idea. Find at least one show that would teach you something you didn’t already know. If it’s on at the same time as something you regularly watch, or at a time when it’s inconvenient for you to watch, record the show. Then, of course–make sure you make time to watch what you recorded.<\/p>\n

    Here are some suggestions, but I’m sure you can find plenty of others when you look.<\/p>\n

    PBS:<\/strong><\/p>\n