In the article "What Would Socrates Say?", the embossed author Peter W Cookson Jr. states "My fear is that instead of knowing nothing except the fact of our own ignorance, we will know everything except for the fact of our own ignorance" (1).
This passage shows that knowing ignorance is key to life and that if you know nothing but ignorance it would be better than knowing everything except ignorance. This means that we have taken the time and/or effort to learn massive amounts of data and information, but have failed to fully understand the information. People will contine to fail to realize that we, as humans, are ignorant to knowing and realizing different concepts of data.
In other words,it's neither good nor bad whether you know everything or know nothing because when it boils down to it, we're all still ignorant in the end. I have always believed that you can't expand your mind by technology, but by enlightenment and the wisdom that comes from within. If you knew everything then you would no longer be needed in life, so to say, because you have nothing else to learn. Therefore, it is now time for death. Time to pass on. Without no learning, there is no need for life.
WELCOME
Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversation Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!
--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!
--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100
Yeah thats true, and makes since. But there is always something else to learn. Knowledge is like a cirlce, it never has an ending point.
ReplyDeleteKinda goes back to Wurman's article "Business of Understanding", where he says it's better to admit you know nothing then to admit you know everything. By admitting you know nothing then it opens you to wanting to learn and having that hunger for learning. Whereas knowing everything you aren't going to want to learn anything new.
ReplyDeleteGreat Job, you're awesome :) i <3 u!!
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