Sentences with phrase «much public ignorance»

Not exact matches

As Anthony Trollope observed over a century ago in Phineas Finn, the fault of a prominent politician was «not arrogance, so much as ignorance that there is, or should be, a difference between public and private life.»

That much has been demonstrated by research showing that while the public has little knowledge of the British party funding system, its ignorance is no barrier to hostility towards the system.

In other arenas of policy and politics, even when people don't know much about a prominent public subject they tend not to perceive or report their own ignorance.

Part of the explanation for this is the widespread ignorance on the part of the general public about just how much already is spent on public schools.

School / districts can only do so much to fight the willful ignorance of a public who think they must be entertained but will not make an effort on their own, refuse to read and whose attention span is limited to 7 - 15 minutes.

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

What is lamentable is the rampant gullibility / willful ignorance of the mainstream media, and hence of much of the general public.

While I agree that ORE can do much more to address professionalism and not just by merely mentioning that Realtors are professionals, registrants must also do their part to better educate the public because when we have two opposing views as below, both of which can not be correct at the same time, it is clear that much of the commentary comes from repeating what has been heard and unfortunately, also a place of ignorance:

In every single market there are agents losing business b / c of the ignorance of the general public on how much money is involved.