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Join Date: May 2004
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Knowledge: It’s a jigsaw puzzle
Most everyone has played with jigsaw puzzles and recognize how we put such puzzles together. When we start a new puzzle the first thing we do is construct the frame. We gather all the pieces with one straight edge and slowly construct the outer perimeter of the puzzle. Such is the case when we organize knowledge. When we begin to learn a new domain of knowledge in school our teachers help us set up the frame. They hold our hands while we construct the outside boundary and slowly fill in the image by adding new facts. After we leave school if we want to become a self-learner and to become knowledgeable of new domains we will follow this same procedure but with a significant difference. We will have no teacher to supply us with the pieces of the puzzle. Especially difficult will be gathering the appropriate side pieces so that we can frame our domain. After this we might very well have to imagine the image of the puzzle because we will not have a teacher to help us ‘see’ what the domain ‘looks like’. When we become a self-learner we will often find pieces of knowledge that do not fit our already constructed frames, when this happens we have two choices. We can throw away the new fragment of knowledge or we can start a journey of discovery in an effort to organize the construction of a new domain. The odd piece of knowledge is either trashed or we must begin a big effort to start construction on a new big puzzle. I think that knowledge is easily acquired when that knowledge fits easily within one’s accepted ideologies. If we have a ready place to put a new fragment of knowledge we can easily find a place to fit it in. When the knowledge does not fit within our already functioning ideas that fact will be discarded unless a great deal of effort is made to find a home for that fragment of knowledge. We are unable to move beyond our ideologies unless we exert great effort. No one can give us that type of knowledge; we must go out of our way to stalk it, wrestle it to the ground and then find other pieces that will complete a frame. That is why our schools do not try to take us beyond our narrow world because it is too costly in time and effort. Our schools prepare us to be good workers and strong consumers, anything beyond that we must capture on our own. No one can give us that kind of knowledge. It can only be presented as an awakening of consciousness and then we can, if we have the energy and curiosity go and capture the knowledge of something totally new and start a new puzzle. |
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Good analogy but i fail at seeing your point. If you are wanting us to discuss this idea then you arent going to get a very strong thought out thread. From reading this i found out that it sounds like a response to a particular subject and not the beginning of a new one. My guess is that if anyone is going to respond to it in any way it will either be that they liked it or they hated it. I just cant bring myself to think that someone wanted to hear just praises or flamming because of their lack of ability to show an indication where they want the subject to go.
Also, you realize that you can relate most ideas about life or knowledge (pretty much any concept for that matter) to just about any object or process here on this planet. |
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FFR Simfile Author
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Coberst's threads are never topics in themselves.
His rainbow thread was full of wise insight, though ^^ Too bad he wouldn't formulate interesting discussion topics rather than threads that feel like replies.
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Yeah, coberst topics are designed to be informative rather than discussion-inducing. They might as well be next articles or something.
He's basically a CT version of pre-ban britishbmx.
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Join Date: May 2004
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I discovered that few people know how to go about the process of learning a new domain of knowledge. When they are given a fragment of knowledge that does not fit into their puzzles that they have been working on all their life they do not know how to start a new puzzle. They had teacherrs to help them start new puzzles but they never learned how to start one one of their own. Instead they take the fragment of new knowledge and either toss it out the window or they cut it up to fit their present puzzles.
What is needed is for young people to learn how to start new puzzles. Your teachers will never teach you how to do this, you must learn that your self or remain ignorant of new domains of knowledge the rest of your life. The reason you find my posts to be incomprehensible is because I am giving you a bit of knowledge that does not fit the puzzles that your teachers taught you. My posts are generally about domains of knowledge that the reader is unfamiliar. The reader needs to learn how to start new puzzles--they need to learn how to start the process of learning new domains of knowledge. |
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At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I'll respond to your idea.
I disagree that we're ever starting new puzzles or finishing them. Knowledge would be, to me, like an increasing jigsaw puzzle with the sides expanding infinately and a never to be found center. The teacher's frame only goes so far, and once you've learned all that the teacher can teach you there's still more to learn that they don't know. Thus the frame expands past that and continues on. I would say that knowledge has a definate center, but then I wouldn't know that that center is. Is it 0+0=0 or something even more simple? The outer frame could be justified by the questions "Why do we live" and "What is life", but those are questions noone can really answer. Just give an opinion to. |
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