I need people to paraphrase this quote from James Madison please?

Question

"A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring, it is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." I want peoples feedbacks thanks..

Answer 1

A governance instated by popular vote that neither feels the pulse of the governed and knows not what it is that they seek, nor shows an inclination to adopt such measures (or doesn't know how to) is nothing but a sham, a recipe for disaster. Knowledge has and always will reign over and get the better of ignorance in the same manner in which light dispels darkness. It is the presence of light that banishes darkness and the absence of light that ushers in an era of dark times. A society that aims at being self-governing cannot do without the power of knowledge. Knowledge and ignorance like light and dark cannot coexist and only thrive off of each other's absence. A society that doesn't equip itself with the power that knowledge bestows upon it, naturally descends into times of ignorance and by implication, into times of darkness.