See also The Profession by Isaac Asimov [0] and his small story The Feeling of Power [1]. Both are social dramas about societies that went far down the path of ignorance.

[0] http://employees.oneonta.edu/blechmjb/JBpages/m360/Professio...

[1] https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/A/Asimov%20-%...