“If you think education is expensive and time-consuming - try ignorance”. What does this phrase mean?[Fill in the blank]

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The prompt presents a common saying about education versus ignorance and asks what it means. We will evaluate each choice in turn and explain why it is or isn’t capturing the intended meaning, using careful reading of the wording.

Option a: 'If adequate time and money are kept aside for training, then only ignorant users will have difficulty using the system, but expert users will be fine.' This statement wrongly constrains difficulty to only 'ignorant' users and suggests that training eliminates all problems for experts as well. It mischaracterizes the quote, which is about the overall cost of ignoring training, not about separating outcomes by user expertise. In short, the claim about experts being unaffected is not supported by the intended message about investment in education.

Option b: 'All users are ignorant when using new systems, so they must be trained so that they can use the system.' This overgeneralizes to total ignorance of all users and frames training as a universal cure for all initial incompetence. The saying is about the costs and risks of not investing in training, not about labeling everyone as ignorant. It exaggerates and misstates the scope of the problem.

Option c: 'If adequate time and money are not kept aside for training, then users will have difficulty using the system and the resulting problems could be very costly.' This aligns with the core idea: neglecting training leads to user struggles, which in turn can incur high costs due to errors, inefficiency, or system failures. It captures the preventive value of investing in education and the potential financial consequences of skipping it.

Option d: 'Only ignorant people say that training is very expensive and time-consuming, when in reality it can be done by just giving the users a well designed user manual' This flips the perspective by belittling those who advocate for training and treating training as unnecessary, while the quote emphasizes the hidden costs of ignorance. It misframes the normative stance and ignores the broader benefits of structured education beyond a manual.

Across all options, the central idea to compare is whether investing in training (time and money) reduces later costs and difficulties, versus claiming that training is unnecessary or that everyone will be fine without it. The choices differ in how they interpret commitment to training, the scope of user competency, and the attribution of costs to ignorance or to training as a concept. The option that best reflects the intended warning about underinvestment in education is the one that ties lack of training to potential difficulties and costly outcomes, rather than to incorrect assumptions about ignorance or trivial solutions.

“If you think education is expensive and time-consuming - try ignorance”. What does this phrase mean?[Fill in the blank]

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