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I am going to expand the definition to further express my thoughts on the issue.
Ignorance in others and in myself is a minor inconvenience, which can be remedied by a proper amount of knowledge gathering, whether it be by teaching or learning.
The one type of ignorance that can quite upset my manner is a stubborn unwillingness to learn and concede a point on topic that is contrary to all possible venues of discussion. It either boils down to me foolhardily agreeing to a contention I know is unsound, or to continue an improvident dispute with one that is not open to bend on their opinion regardless of all evidence to the contrary. If one wishes to converse on a topic, he/she must also be willing to accept that they might not know all there is, and that they could gain insight they might not have had about before the discussion took place. To just promote a viewpoint without any back-and-forth criticism is one that perhaps cannot stand against such arguments. I try to avoid those that put forth these outlooks because they only wish to envelop you with their assumption of why you need to convert to their viewpoint; and it makes no sense for me to expend my energy to fruitlessly try to get some sense across to one who is both ignorant and arrogant enough to not ponder the postulation seriously.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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