Blog 2

Quotes to Ponder:

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." -Confucius

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." -George Bernard Shaw

We've briefly talked about strengths and limitations in regards to the epistemologies (Ways of knowing: sense perception, language, emotion, and reason; Areas of knowing: sciences, maths, arts, history, ethics.) Discuss where you see strengths and limitations in knowledge in one or more of these areas. Which do you find yourself drawn to as having more certainty than others? Personally, where are your strengths as a knower in these epistemologies at this point in your life? How does knowledge in the different areas or ways change over time?

Respond to the podcast, quotes, the questions, or a combination of these by Saturday, February 2, 2013.)

Blog 1:

Quote to ponder: "The greatest obstacle to progress is not the absence of knowledge but the illusion of knowledge." --Daniel Boorstin


Think about your changing, growing knowledge. What, for you, is the contribution of formal education? To what extent do others, in school or in other parts of your life, guide your learning? To what extent are you the one who guides the directions in which your knowledge will develop? Are you the one who is responsible for your own knowledge, as well as for the actions that you take based on what you know or don't know? Going a step further, to what extent is igrnorance a good excuse for acting or not acting in a certain way?

Answer all or a few of these questions thoughtfully and/or respond to something one of your classmates said.  ( by Saturday, Jan. 26).