Saturday, October 20, 2012
Chapter 4 Question 1
The heritage dictionary defines knowledge as "facts, information and skills acquired by a person through experience or education." The same dictionary defines wisdom as "the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment." Knowledge is just informations and skills learned through experience and wisdom is the quality of having knowledge. As students in college, we gain knowledge primarily through our classes, studying and doing homework. We also learn other facts through life experiences and other situations. For example, if one is studying math and a professor teaches a formula, when you retain that information, that's considered knowledge. However, we gain wisdom by acquiring this knowledge and experiencing different situations. When we experience these situations more than once, we can correctly analyze the situations if we hadn't before, thus having good judgment. For example, if I fail a test, I'll know next time to study harder to assure I don't fail next time.
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I like how you defined knowledge and wisdom because it gives actual evidence and support of what wisdom and knowledge really is. Wisdom is really based upon the experience one has when they go through life. From being a child to an adult, an individual goes through many experiences that wisdom can be obtained from. Most of the time wisdom is attained from people you look up to or people that are relevant in your life. On the other hand knowledge is usually gained from studying and from retaining information from school. I do agree that knowledge is appropriate when taking tests and quizzes
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