Iamon lyme: We are all ignorant. It's a matter of a finite brain divided by infinite knowledge... In the end we all have something we no no-thing about. Thought control does not mean con job. Some people have to persuade others they are right just to be right, ie a matter of insecurity over beliefs like we have with some religious sects that say 'the word of God/Allah (whatever the name) cannot be questioned.

"Being educated and informed is meaningless if all you are dealing with is raw facts and information.."

No.. there are fields of study such as statistics that aid in dealing with such. How they can be manipulated, that extreme figures tend to be 'blips', and a feel for bull when someone says it means "X" when more factors are implicit that makes "X" untrue, part true or "XYZ"