Quote: Bookworship

The fetishism of books and education is like all modern things a surrogate for actual knowledge. The learning process is not knowledge, nor are the books, nor the attendance of schools itself. Knowledge and wisdom are internal traits created by a compulsion to learn, and not just learn anything, but learn abilities which requires a study of reality.

If that were a widely distributed trait, humanity would be in a much different place. Since it is not, we fetishize books and other accoutrements of the educated, and pretend it makes us all equally wise and powerful.