For Lesson 2

If you wish to watch again the two 'West Wing' mapping clips we looked at in class, select them below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efjcrbNcW6s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRtN4UK1wHk

Please remember that for Lesson 2, you are to:

1. spend an additional 15 minutes writing your ToK Journal entry #1 (preferably in a black ToK notebook… or else file paper) in response to the following prompt – i.e. How have today’s mapping activity, discussion/debrief, and West Wing clips challenged your view of knowledge? your understanding of what you know/don’t know? your own picture(s) of knowledge?
2. draw a picture of the ‘school knowledge’ you’ve acquired in your pre-school, primary, and secondary school days (be prepared to show and discuss your ‘school knowledge’ picture with others); and
3. complete the VARK questionnaire (http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=younger) and bring a hard-copy of the results.

Knowers & Knowing

1. 'Shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to recognise that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to recognise that you do not know it. That is knowledge.' (Confucius)



2. 'Where there is shouting there is no true knowledge.' (Leonardo da Vinci)



3. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.' (Martin Luther King)



4. 'Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.' (Francois de La Rochefoucald)



5. 'Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.' (Daniel J. Boorstin)



6. 'It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.' (G. K. Chesterton)



7. 'Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.' (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)



8. 'A very popular error – having the courage of one’s convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one’s convictions.' (Anon)



9. 'There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.' (Democritus)



10. 'The most important truths are likely to be those which… society at that time least wants to hear.' (W. H. Auden)



11. 'Never assume the obvious is true.' (William Safire)



12. 'The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.' (Ludwig von Mises)



13. 'The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.' (Anais Nin)



14. 'If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.' (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)



15. 'Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.' (Buckminster Fuller)



16. 'Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.' (Carl Jung)



17. 'The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.' (Eden Phillpotts)



18. 'The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.' (Malcolm Forbes)



19. 'Self-knowledge is like a garden. If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.' (Ghanaian proverb)



20. 'In times of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future: the learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.' (Eric Hoffer)



21. 'The more you know the less you understand.' (Tao Le Ching)