Was it I who pushed this thread into a flame war or the other commenters?
I only intended to point out that education, by its nature, changes people which inevitably leads to friction with other people who don't like that change or what that change enables which is not new. The origin of the word "erudition" highlights that point quite well.
If you had actually pointed out what you say you intended to point out, that would have been much better. What you actually posted was an inflammatory quote plus a snarky one liner, and the expected value of that is a flamewar [1].
I realize it's not so easy to make intent explicit, because it seems obvious to you (by "you" I mean all of us, of course)- the problem is that it exists in your head where no one else has access to it - therefore the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate [2].
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