2010-01-14, 04:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 2010-01-14, 04:28 PM by Kawasari Mimoto.)
One of my professors stated the following, and I did take careful notes on this:
Here's what I think. As far as beliefs goes, if a child in class were forced to learn "1+1 = 2", the child cannot say "Teacher, you are wrong. Why is that 1+1 is 2?", the teacher will say "Henry, the answer is two. That is just the answer", and will attempt to demonstrate it to the child.
Sometimes, this can be applied in other situations as well. There is a saying that goes "Not everything is written in stone", to me, this demonstrates a lot. Nothing is solid and profound, you have to be willing to ask questions, such as "Why?" and "How?". We as humans, tends to take things in as it is, and never question enough, or question at all.
Back during my College days, I would always ask "Why is that so?" to some of my teachers, not to be arrogant or smart-assed, but I enjoy asking to gain knowledge. I would even question my own teacher's logics. Some of them, will gladly admit that they are not always right.
I'm sure somebody is going to disagree with me in this thread.
PS: In fact, I think answers and truths can only be found by asking questions. If you do not ask, you do not learn. You must question everything in life. One does not gain knowledge by assuming one knows everything. Because of the intensity of my questions in class today, I had the professor raising his eyebrow saying..
"Ken, you brought up a good point, I'll have to get back to you on that during the next class' lecture"
Quote:2 big problems with common sense:
1) Flexbility
-can go in either good or bad directions*
2) Belief
-Basic beliefs about society.. is that you don't question it. You are forced to take things as it is. Things are given to you, you just in-take it into your head
* = Example, there's 2 armies. Imagine this carefully, one army has 12 members. This army is easier to gain rankings and advance, etc. The second army has 6 people, however, they may be a more knit-tight family. This army is harder to up your own ranking.
Put this in perspective, you might ask "What are you getting at?". Here's what I'm trying to explain, which army is it easier to gain troops-morale? Why?
Correct answer is, both are easy. Because 1st army is easy to gain rankings and go up the ladder, that's a great motivation. 2nd army on the other hand, has more meaning to it. If you were to advance, you'd feel more of an accomplishment.
You should be asking yourself this, which of the two is common-sense? They both are, that's the answer to it. Common-sense really is not that common.
Here's what I think. As far as beliefs goes, if a child in class were forced to learn "1+1 = 2", the child cannot say "Teacher, you are wrong. Why is that 1+1 is 2?", the teacher will say "Henry, the answer is two. That is just the answer", and will attempt to demonstrate it to the child.
Sometimes, this can be applied in other situations as well. There is a saying that goes "Not everything is written in stone", to me, this demonstrates a lot. Nothing is solid and profound, you have to be willing to ask questions, such as "Why?" and "How?". We as humans, tends to take things in as it is, and never question enough, or question at all.
Back during my College days, I would always ask "Why is that so?" to some of my teachers, not to be arrogant or smart-assed, but I enjoy asking to gain knowledge. I would even question my own teacher's logics. Some of them, will gladly admit that they are not always right.
I'm sure somebody is going to disagree with me in this thread.
PS: In fact, I think answers and truths can only be found by asking questions. If you do not ask, you do not learn. You must question everything in life. One does not gain knowledge by assuming one knows everything. Because of the intensity of my questions in class today, I had the professor raising his eyebrow saying..
"Ken, you brought up a good point, I'll have to get back to you on that during the next class' lecture"