The true cost of ignorance – Anna Marie Galea

I’m not sure who it was who once said: “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance”, but it’s incredible how fitting those words are at the moment. What makes everything even more tragicomical is the fact that education is practically entirely tax-subsidised in this country (excluding those €20 note packs that you always hear parents griping over on social media because they were expecting those for free too).

With all the things mine and your taxes pay for and the fact that everyone is legally-obliged to stay in school till they’re at least 16, you’d think that we would be living in a haven of knowledge. So, it remains a cause of quiet fascination to me how downright ignorant and silly some people manage to remain.

Around a couple of weeks ago, a now-infamous racist rant was made public and shared widely. The police rightfully and legally took the man who made the video in for questioning over incitement to racial hatred because well, that’s what it should have sounded like to anyone who heard the video. Yet, despite this, up and down the country, the Maltese are saying that he has a right to his opinion. Yes, apparently, saying truly horrific things, and as it turns...