Something similar to this could be done in schools in rural areas which are usually neglected, with a focus not just on academics, but also global affairs to help eradicate this ignorance.
In a direct and powerful speech last week to the General Assembly, the Secretary-General reminded Member States that no nation is an island - and that multilateral action is indispensible, whether in the service of fighting terrorism, eradicating poverty, ignorance and disease, or protecting children from such threats as climate change, HIV/AIDS, and sexual trafficking.
The bill is the single biggest change to welfare provision in the UK since Beveridge first reported on a welfare state that aimed to eradicate "Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness".
William McDougall, a Harvard psychologist, believed that ignorance could be eradicated by encouraging people who could read to reproduce and forbidding those who couldn't, as if this followed naturally from Mendel, with his peas, wrinkly and smooth.
Barnett believed that exposure to fine art would help to eradicate the local viruses of poverty and ignorance.
Sir Ian notes that it is now 60 years since the postwar Labour government's pledge of the welfare state to eradicate Beveridge's five giants: want, idleness, ignorance, squalor and disease.
I purport to have no specialized long-term treatment to eradicate the country's cancerous prejudice, poverty, and ignorance.
To William Beveridge it was about eradicating evil - the "giant evils" of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease.
So though unquestionably we've made progress on the race issue, anyone who suggests we've eradicated this age-old scourge, born out of fear and ignorance, is simply deluded.
Eradicating sexism and racism is not only a project of combating ignorance or mere lack of knowledge and therefore demonstrating that various figures in the history of Western philosophy based their views of women or people of color on faulty knowledge is not sufficient to combat future sexism.
