Without education we are in danger of taking educated people seriously.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. The latest fads of culture, the latest sophistries of anarchism [or totalitarianism] will carry us away if we are uneducated: we shall not know how very old are all new ideas. We shall think that Christian Science is really the whole of Christianity and the whole of science. We shall think that art colours are really the only colours in art. The uneducated man will always care too much for complications, novelties, the fashion, the latest thing. The uneducated man will always be an intellectual dandy.

G.K. Chesterton, The Illustrated London News, Dec 2, 1905, quoted in George Marlin, et al., More Quotable Chesterton p. 139.