A little learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
-- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
In this respect, alcohol has an inverse relationship to education. A little alcohol keeps one sober whereas too much intoxicates, but too little education intoxicates whereas more will sober you up. To be drunk on education is to merely sip at it. To be sober is to polish off the bottle. It is only safe to operate a household with a blood-education level of 1.00 or more whereas a meager 0.02 level is too be black out drunk. In other words, a little wisdom makes things blurry, but more will clear them up.
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