Knowledge is Virtue?

Moral Excellence, a good admirable quality, righteousness. These are some definitions of the word virtue. We have talked about virtue a lot in this course yet never gave it a real definition. I don't believe that knowledge is necessarily virtue, but i do believe that knowledge does lead to it. When you become knowledgeable about something you are able to be open minded about things and accept things more than when you are ignorant to facts. For example, I was told that I needed to call the holiday inn to make a reservation, the person who told me to do it told me that I should have "a white friend" call because maybe that will enable me to actually get a room. I think this is an example of a person who isn't knowledgeable about the times we live in and isn't knowledgeable enough to be proud of the skin they are in. It can be said that this person isn't virtuous because of the mind set they have.
To be ignorant isn't to be virtuous because if you are virtuous you try to be the best you can be . You try to be righteous but you aren't able because you don't understand the way the world works. So ignorance isn't always bliss, because ignorance is the opposite of knowledge and knowledge leads to virtue. Knowledge does encourage people to be open and accepting of differences that people have. Once you become more accepting , your more prone to doing virtuous things. :-)