The Educated Fool
'Bloody uneducated fool!',bellowed the shopkeeper to the back of a customer who disregarded a 'No Smoking' sign in his shop. The rest of us did throw him dagger looks but it didn't deter him from puffing away in the small confines of a grocery shop. When i got home,i thought about the words the shopkeeper used- Uneducated Fool. The man looked very educated and the shop was in an affluent part of the town. What could have made him blatantly smoke?. Could he be illiterate,perhaps?, or he simply chose to ignore the no smoking sign because he was arrogant and couldn't care less about others inside the shop? Then an uneducated fellow cannot be called a fool nor can an educated fellow be fine. i've seen well educated persons grabbing greedily at free handouts while the less educated crowd stood in line for their turn. Educators in my neighbourhood think nothing of open burning and one wonders if they are even thinking about the environment. The fact is, no ...