Norbert Poon- Knowers and Knowing

'˜Education is learning what you didn'™t even know you didn't know.'™-(Daniel J. Boorstin)

This quote explores Infinity, Existence and Limits.

This quote reminds me that education is almost infinite, because there are so many things that one can learn, and very often, you don’t even know that such things exist. This is why education always beyond what one knows and beyond what they have learnt before.

The main message here really is telling us there are a lot to learn, so much that one life time is not enough and so much that we don't even know they exist.

What this quotes really means is that education should be very fascinating to everyone, and very broad. A student is always exploring beyond what they already know, and it might also be hinting if education doesn’t interest you, you are better off not studying.

I totally agree to this. Speaking as a student and representing all students, we are always learning new aspects of everything in life that we didn’t know exist. And because we don'€™t know them, we have constantly been given information. Just like in one episode of a series '€˜The West Wing'€™, we didn'€™t know the world could have been drawn according to the power of each country, or depending on the version of the map, the history of a country or continent. We didn'€™t know the world could be different to the map, because we were told the map represents the world since we were small. This all depends on one'€™s view of knowledge, their perspective to what knowledge is. Bringing it back to the quote, we can bring up many different arguments that make us think there are many things we can explore, and that brings us to the infinity.

But how far is the infinity? We don'€™t know. This is where we need to know limits, because if we don’t then there will be so much to explore, that we don'€™t know which to explore first.