It's not difficult to educate someone...convincing them to care? Not easy at all.

Apathy, no question. Knowing something is wrong and not doing anything about it is much worse than not knowing.

apathy you still know what it is happening you just choose to shield yourself away from that pain or whatever. you choose not to feel. with ignorance you simply dont know and i have always been a strong believer of "ignorance is bliss" you cant care or feel or understand something you know nothing about. like children, life is new to them every touch every smell is new. and the older they grow the more the pain the feel and see. i mean how many depressed toddlers do you know? ignorance allows ppl to live their lives without the interfering of problems. most problems that arent controllable, a sickness, a death, an accident, etc. apathy you know. and i think that most ppl who have apathy are just putting up a front. or making it seem like they dont care because they dont want to care they would rather not know be ignorant to the subject...but that is from my experiences

Ignorance, while dangerous, is a condition that can be altered - apathy very often is not. Ironically enough, ignorance is not necessarily dangerous until it is paired with apathy - if a person does not know something, it doesn't truly become dangerous until he lacks the desire to learn. While it is true that ignorance is a great way to spread misinformation, apathy is also a great way to make certain that nobody disputes it. There will always be ignorance that seeks to be enlightened - the same cannot be said of apathy. The ignorant can always be informed - it is only when they are too apathetic to care that they no longer ARE informed.

Knowing there is poverty and suffering in this world but being apathetic to it is much worse than ignorance.