After reading this section, I can honestly say that knowledge makes you both wiser and dumber at the same time. For example, in school, we learn about so many different subjects- aka math, English, history, business, arts, act. Accumulating a little information from each subject makes us knowledgable, but at the same time wiser. As my grandfather once said, in which he quoted Aldous Huxley, "Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." Wisdom comes from both information and real life experiences. In college we are always acquiring both wisdom and knowledge. We learn our knowledgable stuff from all the subjects we learn, but at the same time get to gain wisdom from those subjects and the experiences we have on and off campus. Everyday I learn something new in college, making a little but more knowledgable, but at the same time I am also getting a bit wiser from all of the stuff I go through in college. In the end, I think the information has made us both more knowledgable and wiser.
Hello Greek guy,
ReplyDeleteI like the way in which you link college with wise and knowledge. All colleges require student to take a number of General Education courses, no matter what your major is. By taking all those different subjects, we gain knowledge from those classes and apply it to our daily life to make us wiser. Just like this class, even though I am not majoring in communication, it is part of the General Education requirement, because I will be able to learn critical thinking skills, which are life skills for everyone. You are right that with the informative age, we are becoming more knowledgeable and wiser. That is because technology is more approachable and accurate for people to learn.
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Adrian
I agree with you, but on my post I mentioned that knowledge and wisdom are different things. But like you said, they do coincide with each other in that the knowledge can lead to wisdom as we us the information we learned and put it into practice. I think in college, it definitely makes us more knowledgeable than wise. I mean in terms of what we actually learn in class, it is mostly information like facts, history, science, etc. But in terms of our college experience, we do gain wisdom by learning how to communicate with other people, for instance.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you that wisdom is both knowledge and real life experiences. I think that challenges that life poses are what make us so wise. Many of use obviously have very different lives, but it's really clear that we all face some kind of problem that we need to solve. While yes, we do use our knowledge to solve it, the outcome of our solution is what makes us wise. It's what makes us able to go and help people with their problems and give them more useful and direct advice. Your evaluation of this is completely spot on.
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ReplyDeleteI really got excited when you said, "makes you both wiser and dumber at the same time." I thought you were going somewhere interesting and funny. Nevertheless, I really like your post and some of your own experiences. I really enjoyed the quote from your grandfather because it proved that age come great wisdom. As cliche as it make sound he does have a valid point and I am pretty sure he can provide you and us with perfect example that he has experienced in life. That being said I do agree with you knowledge and wisdom do hand and hand. It seems that we never stop learning or experiencing life situations. Therefore, we never stop gaining knowledge and wisdom. Thanks for the post.
Heisenberg
I agree with you that having to take GE courses makes you more knowledgeable and wiser. I personally don't think it's that beneficial because when is anyone going to use history, for example, in the outside world if they don't want to become a teacher? I also agree with the statement you make about getting wiser when going through things in college because it's true. If you make a mistake, you learn from it which makes you wiser. Knowledge and wisdom are connected to each other, and I really liked the quote that your grandfather said as well. It has a very simple, yet deep meaning to it.
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ReplyDeleteI really liked this post, especially the quote from Huxley. I agree here with all of your points and I believe that the idea of "Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you," is a great way to put it into simple terms. All of our classes and GE courses allow us to gain more knowledge, and with that knowledge, we learn how to act around certain things. WIth that knowledge we are able to have a better understanding of the world, therefore changing the way we act. Knowledge does make us a lot wiser, and in college we become wiser and smarter.
It is interesting to say that knowledge makes you both wiser and dumber. This sentence caught my attention. Every time we are learning new things from class, we are gaining knowledge from the particular aspect. I agree with you that wisdom comes from both information and real life experiences. Wisdom is acquired knowledge that you have applied into our life to create experiences to help understand that knowledge in deeper level. Whenever we apply the knowledge that we have already had into our life, it becomes our own experiences. Since knowledge and wisdom are tightly related to each other, I agree that we will become more knowledgeable and wiser at the same time.
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