The leaders, who have won 26 of their 27 top-flight games, are 27 points clear of second-placed Aberdeen and require seven points to win the title.
Responding to criticism of Scottish football, Rodgers said: "It's ignorance really.
"The footballing world is more than the (English) Premier League."
Celtic's 4-0 victory at Inverness CT in midweek left them three games away from a sixth consecutive league title.
"With all due respect, it's a lack of knowledge of football," Rodgers said of criticism of Scotland's top flight.
"We all love to see the Premier League and I was part of it but football is global and Celtic is one of the biggest clubs in the world.
"But if your eyes are only on one league then of course you tend to ignore what's around that.
"It (Scottish Premiership) is not as prestigious as some of the other leagues and that's purely on the basis of finance. Financially, Scottish football doesn't have the same rewards or the same propaganda that surrounds some of the other leagues, but it's still a very very competitive league."
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Celtic midfielder Nir Bitton echoed his manager's view and said the Premiership was a "competitive league".
"For us it is not as easy as it looks on the table. It's a very competitive league," said the Israel international.
Bitton, who featured in the win in the Highlands, believes critics of the Scottish Premiership are wide of the mark.
"I think every game is difficult and the other team are going to defend and try to get something out of the game," he said.
"A lot of people look at the table and think Celtic are far better team [than others] in the Scottish league and they have no competition. It's far from being true.
"I think you can see that players who have played in the Premier League like Joey Barton or Niko Kranjcar that came to Scotland and thought it was going to be easy.
"But no, it's not easy. It's a very competitive league, it's a very difficult league, it's very tough. Some places you go to play like Inverness on Wednesday night, believe me it's not easy."

She is calling the brand Cefinn - taking inspiration from the initials of her four children Elwen, Florence, Ivan and Nancy.
Mrs Cameron said she wanted to design "an urban uniform for busy women" and that she felt there was a "gap in the market".
Her husband stood down in July after the EU referendum.
She was lauded for her sartorial choices during his tenure as prime minister and regularly championed the British fashion industry.
Items from the 40-piece ready-to-wear collection, launching for spring/summer 2017, will retail at between Â£100 and Â£300.
Mrs Cameron said: "I wanted to create an urban uniform for busy women who love fashion.
"I felt there was a gap in the market for a designer British brand at a contemporary price point offering a capsule wardrobe that takes you from day to evening."
A publicity picture shows her in a sleeveless black outfit with scarlet piping at the shoulders, taken from the collection.
Mrs Cameron, who has a consultancy role at luxury leather goods makers Smythson, where she was previously creative director, was named one of the best-dressed women in the world by Vanity Fair last year.
She is also a British Fashion Council ambassador.
She told Vogue she had "spent a lot of time trying stuff on friends", and added: "I felt that there was a lot of American and French brands out there that fit that bracket of designer contemporary with the right price point and the right styling, but there aren't that many British brands which fill that space."
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Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has defended the standard of Scottish football as his unbeaten side close in on the Premiership title.
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Samantha Cameron, the wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron, is launching a new fashion label.