It may sound-old fashioned, even Blytonesque, but, if children were occasionally taken outside the bubble of our cosseted, urbanised culture, the results in later life would be significant: less ignorance about the environment, more understanding of the realities of food, less sentimentality and cruelty towards animals.
Pointing at significant levels of public ignorance about which parliament has which powers, Hunter's press notice stated: When asked about which areas were currently devolved to the Scottish parliament, only 50% of voters were aware that education is already a devolved power, 47% mentioned healthcare and 35% free care for the elderly, with 34% indicating that transport was a devolved power.
Due to social prejudice and ignorance, a significant number of women are still indifferent about visiting health care centers to receive ante-natal care, delivery and post-natal care, increasing the risks of maternal mortality and child morbidity.
The government has expressed concern that this widespread ignorance is causing significant financial damage.
Marijuana panics also require public ignorance: the most significant of them occurred in the 30s, 50s, and 80s, when alternative perspectives were much harder to find and scientific data far more difficult to access, according to historian Emily Dufton, author of the forthcoming Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America.
The existing methods of consumption calculations exhibit significant error percentages due to the ignorance of important parameters which affect on thread consumption.
Funding cuts to the CSIRO are driven by "pure ignorance" and will result in significant damage to Australia's economy, the organisation's staff body has claimed.
One of Palin's most significant contributions to the Republican Party was making ignorance a point of pride.
Willing is not enough, we must do" [ 1] Health care delivered in ignorance of available research evidence, misses important opportunities to benefit patients and may cause significant harm [ 2- 4].
The prospective-user factors of working or site visit experience at laboratory or construction site, awareness of safety signs in daily life, injury experience due to ignorance of safety signs, and driving experience had significant effects on guessing performance.
