An Education for Our Age

Education is important because an educated person will be more apt to treat a person as they are, rather than limiting interactions to stereotypes.

Note the use of the lower-case "e" on educated in the sentence above. That is intentional. An Education these days seems to the only thing makes a person worth listening to, or so they say. Who says this? The Educated.

Learning is in the hands of the individual. By empowering individuals and teaching them how to teach themselves through books, their experience becomes just one of their life teachers. No one can live long enough to make every mistake, so it is important to learn from the experiences of others.
By immersing yourself in a book, you dedicate time to hear the author's voice. This specific, one-on-one communication is one of the clearest ways to gain knowledge. And knowledge implemented is wisdom gained.
So pick up a book and come, listen to an author's voice.